The Higgs boson is named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Higgs Peter Higgs] who, along with two other teams, proposed the [[mechanism]] that suggested such a [[particle]] in 1964. In [[mainstream]] [[media]] it is very often referred to as "the God particle", after the title of Leon Lederman's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_Particle:_If_the_Universe_Is_the_Answer,_What_Is_the_Question%3F book on the topic] (1993). Although the proposed particle is both important and elusive, the epithet is strongly disliked by physicists, who regard it as misleading exaggeration. | The Higgs boson is named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Higgs Peter Higgs] who, along with two other teams, proposed the [[mechanism]] that suggested such a [[particle]] in 1964. In [[mainstream]] [[media]] it is very often referred to as "the God particle", after the title of Leon Lederman's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_Particle:_If_the_Universe_Is_the_Answer,_What_Is_the_Question%3F book on the topic] (1993). Although the proposed particle is both important and elusive, the epithet is strongly disliked by physicists, who regard it as misleading exaggeration. |