Dude with a hatchetman jersey @1:23

I cringe when I hear the term “God Particle”. It is used only by media and despite all reputable physicist telling them not to call it that since it has nothing to do with God. It explains why some fundamental particles have mass when the symmetries controlling their interactions should require them to be massless. The term “God Particle” came from a book back in 1993 called “The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?” Lederman, the author, explains in the book why he gave the Higgs boson the nickname “The God Particle”:

…Why God Particle? … the publisher wouldn’t let us call it the Goddamn Particle, though that might be a more appropriate title, given its villainous nature and the expense it is causing.

The media won’t let the name go even though it is entirely incorrect. It was originally supposed to be called as a joke “the Goddamn Particle”. Now too many people think it has some association with something more than it is. It is just one of many particles that makes up the standard model of particle physics it is “special” in that it has been one of the hardest for us to replicate in a scientific setting since we are trying to deal with energies that were present microseconds after the “big bang” (another term that the media throws around the media has no clue about). The “big bang” was not an explosion. it was a rapid expansion in terms of the distance between things increased drastically in a very short period of time but there was no explosion since there was nothing outside of the universe to explode into. The universe just rapidly increased in size.

Anyway, enough of my rant.. As you can tell, I am not a fan of the media. They do not educate, the flat out misrepresent science.