God particle
Leon Lederman, Nobel-Winning Physicist Who Coined the Term 'God Particle,' Dead at 96
Lederman sold his Nobel Prize at auction for $765,000 in 2015 in order to pay for medical bills.
A Death on the Frontier
The unprecedented hunt for the the Higgs boson or "God particle" may have culminated at Europe's largest particle accelerator, but it was the product of an effort that began thousands of miles away at another atom smasher beneath the Illinois prairie.
For Chrissakes, Stop Calling It 'God Particle'
Detecting and cross-checking (and cross-checking again) the existence of the Higgs boson is a big undertaking and an important one, so its attention from the press is understandable - laudable, even. But the problem with covering the Higgs boson search...
The Spiritual World Reacts to the Higgs Boson Discovery
We asked God's gatekeepers if Cern's discovery means God doesn't exist.
Why America's Higgs Party Won't Be a Blowout: Fermilab’s Rob Roser on the View from the Tevatron
Tomorrow, when the world hears a giant announcement about the Higgs boson from scientists at Europe’s CERN laboratory, they might not notice its American accomplice. On Monday, the Fermi National Laboratory, or Fermilab, which is situated in the middle...
Motherboard TV: Inside the Large Hadron Collider
Tomorrow, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is set to announce some of the most highly-anticipated — and poorly-embargoed - findings in recent memory: evidence of the existence of the Higgs boson. Now, we won’t know for sure until...
For the Love of God Particle, the God Particle Has Not (Yet) Been 'Discovered'
Hey, did you hear the big news? The Higgs boson has been discovered!!!! Oh wait. No it hasn't. Well, at least not yet. So please, for the love of theorized God particles, please refrain for the time being from shitting bricks and/or popping the...
Motherboard TV: Big Bangs and Black Holes
Buried beneath the Swiss countryside and stretching across the border to France, the Large Hadron Collider isn't just any science experiment.