Re: God particle?
Originally Posted by
sanjaya
Heh, you beat me to it Realdemigod. I would have posted this yesterday, but actually I was working a shift at the observatory, where you can tell there was quite a stir. None of us are particle physicists of course, but the discovery has some relevance to us in astronomy as well, since certain dark matter models rely on supersymmetry. In any case the Higgs Boson is an important capstone in the Standard Model of particle physics. The Standard Model is an understanding of what fundamental particles constitute the building blocks of nature and what their properties are, and the theory has been well-tested. The Higgs Boson was the final particle to be observed, and its absence would result in a hole in the theory, requiring all sorts of "beyond the Standard Model" theories. Thus its discovery is an important capstone.
The term "God Particle" is an unfortunate name. I don't know how much credence to give this story, but I once heard that in his seminal paper, Peter Higgs dubbed it the "Goddamn Particle" because it was so elusive. Apparently the journal referee didn't let this fly for the obvious reasons, so it was renamed the God Particle. On a sidenote, the term "boson" is a word referring to particles with integer spin quantum number, and is named after the Indian physicist Satyendera Nath Bose.
I didn't think this news would cause stir here as well . Like you mentioned the term is quite misleading as there are still so many questions unanswered. But it's a good progress for the astronomical amounts of money they are spending. May be it will take few decades or more to realise the ultimate reality manifesting the cosmos is Brahman.
Till then people are free to fight who is correct
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Hara Hara Mahadeva Shambo Shankara
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