The Two-Way 2:12 pm Fri March 15, 2013  The Man Who Coined 'The
God Particle' Explains: It Was A Joke!  Credit ATLAS
Experiment/CERN This is what researchers at the ATLAS detector
at the Large Hadron Collider expect a Higgs boson to look like.
The Higgs boson is the subatomic particle that scientists say
gives everything in the universe mass.  Originally published on
Fri March 15, 2013 3:02 pm  We've explained it many times:
Physicists are irked when we in the media call the Higgs Boson,
"The God Particle."  The Higgs is important because the elusive
subatomic particle is believed to give everything its mass. But
as Marcelo Gleiser — of NPR's 13.7 — explained, the nickname
doesn't quite explain the particle because while it "does have
something of a centralizing influence," it's "nothing quite
divine."  It's misnomer, even stupid, some physicists say.  All
Things Considered spoke to the man credited with giving the
particle its moniker. In 1993, Dick Teresi co-wrote The God
Particle: If the Universe Is the An