Well really, "God Particle" religious connection or not, paints it as some sort of all powerful particle. When in reality it isn't that, rather a missing piece of a physics puzzle(or from my limited understanding, I'm sure someone more clued in will scoff at that simplification). The science community don't call it the "God" particle, because like Queen Michael said, it pains a disorted picture of what it actually is to the rest of the world.Happyninja42 said:Clarify what you mean. Because in the practical sense, the particle that has been dubbed the "God Particle" has apparently been found and proven to actually exist. So, there is such a thing as a God Particle in that sense.Queen Michael said:There is no such thing as a "God particle." That's the distorted version for people who want to understand this without actually understanding it.
If you mean "some particle that is God, related to God, or some such thing about the religious concept of a diety", then I would agree, but your statement was kind of vague.
Yes something that gets called the "god particle" has been discovered, but that isn't what it is, like Stonehenge isn't a Henge(granted we're not going to change the name of that, but it's early enough for the Higgs Boson for perception to change). "God" particle isn't technically even it's proper nickname, the dude who theorized it wanted to reference it as the "Goddamn Particle" but they wouldn't let him. Which of course has entirely different connotations. As in "where the hell is it?"