{"id":600,"date":"2013-04-11T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=600"},"modified":"2013-04-10T18:14:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T23:14:08","slug":"higgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2013\/04\/higgs\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Higgs: Don&#8217;t Call It the &#8216;God Particle&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/25.media.tumblr.com\/64744199618c3490a1885ccc6bcf921e\/tumblr_ml2b0gKSDM1qcnn8do1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"185\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You all remember <strong>Peter Higgs<\/strong>, right? The guy who predicted the Boson (and later <a title=\"Peter Higgs, the Boson Man, takes out after Richard Dawkins for the usual reasons\" href=\"http:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/27\/peter-higgs-the-boson-man-takes-out-after-richard-dawkins-for-the-usual-reasons\/\">went after <strong>Richard Dawkins<\/strong> for no reason<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Well, he&#8217;s an Atheist and he <a title=\"Higgs boson: Stop calling it the 'God particle', says Peter Higgs\" href=\"http:\/\/thestar.blogs.com\/worlddaily\/2013\/04\/peter-higgs-says-to-stop-calling-higgs-boson-the-god-particle.html\">despises the Higgs Boson being called the god particle<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tomorrow, the BBC is airing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0176b27\" target=\"_self\">a special on Peter Higgs<\/a>, the British particle physicist. Higgs is the namesake of the Higgs boson, the particle discovered at CERN last summer that is sometimes called &#8220;the God particle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Higgs will use his BBC soapbox to <strong>ask us all to please stop it with the whole God thing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First of all, I&#8217;m an atheist,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/science-news\/9978226\/Prof-Peter-Higgs-Atheist-scientist-admits-he-doesnt-believe-in-god-particle.html\" target=\"_self\">The Telegraph quotes him<\/a>\u00a0as telling the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The second thing is I know <strong>that name was a kind of joke and not a very good one<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is by no means the first time Higgs has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ibbzabw19BM\" target=\"_self\">mentioned his dislike for the term &#8220;God particle<\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0and he is by no means the only person to harbour such feelings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I, for one, am with him and I &#8220;harbour such feelings&#8221; too! We don&#8217;t go around naming actual things after implausible fiction characters. There&#8217;s no Voldemort gene or Zeus trait, so why should there be a god particle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You all remember Peter Higgs, right? The guy who predicted the Boson (and later went after Richard Dawkins for no&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[382,199],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atheism","tag-peter-higgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}