Scientists Abuzz Over Rumor that God Particle Has Been Detected at LHC(livescience.com)
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Scientists Abuzz Over Rumor that God Particle Has Been Detected at LHC
http://www.livescience.com/13853-higgs-boson-signal-lhc-cern.html
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I hope when it is discovered then journalists can give up on the nickname "God particle".
Sheesh, it's just the Higgs Boson. It gives mass to particles. It didn't create the universe. It doesn't turn water into wine. It doesn't smite ancient middle-eastern cities for playing with their wangs. And it doesn't love you or demand you love it in return.
Sheesh, it's just the Higgs Boson. It gives mass to particles. It didn't create the universe. It doesn't turn water into wine. It doesn't smite ancient middle-eastern cities for playing with their wangs. And it doesn't love you or demand you love it in return.
All the things you listed seem to be propagated by religions, rather than being abilities of a God or things that non-religious people report about gods.
Fine. It doesn't have a giant hammer or throw lightning bolts or... wait, what do non-religious people report about gods?
The following might seem somewhat far fetched to you, but then again, when I was in your position it seemed that way to me too.
One thing non-religious people are able to report about God is that what we call a god means the consciousness which is generated by activities. Consciousness is like an electrical signal in that it will transmit any information input into it.
Something recorded in a consciousness can be said not to have very much mass compared to the actual object which was met, so curiously (and not coincidentally), people calling the Higgs particle the god particle is actually as wrong as the religious accounts of gods ability because god doesn't have the ability to change massive things by itself. Hope this makes more sense..
Dorigo — who said he doesn't have access to the full ATLAS memo — gives several reasons for this viewpoint. He points out, for example, that scientists at Fermilab didn't see the putative Higgs signal in their Tevatron data, which covered similar ground as the ATLAS experiment.
Dorigo feels strongly enough, in fact, to put his money where his mouth is.
"I bet $1,000 with whomever has a name and a reputation in particle physics (this is a necessary specification, because I need to be sure that the person taking the bet will honor it) that the signal is not due to Higgs boson decays," he wrote on his blog today. "I am willing to bet that this is NO NEW PARTICLE. Clear enough?"