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FraDon

(518 posts)
9. bravo to the science folks (assuming you're not making all this up)
Thu Jul 5, 2012, 07:47 AM
Jul 2012

Last edited Thu Jul 5, 2012, 11:30 AM - Edit history (1)

… you know, like the so-called wars on drugs, poverty, terror

… you know, jobs programs (just kiddin about you scientists)

Bravo to Dr. Higgs ~ stick to your crazy connect-the-dots visions.

I heard on NPR that a reviewer came up with the descriptor "the goddamned particle" (due to its elusiveness), and THAT person's editor shortened it to the god particle – and it just stuck.

[On Edit:] Just saw this:

Meanwhile the Sun sums up the complexity of the subject: "Never in the field of human knowledge has so much been written about something understood by so few."
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