Category: god particle cliche

Next to Holy Grail, all time record holder in my unholy book, the most rankling cliche in science right now has to be god particle.

Time to retire it. Shame on media for using it. It's not that scripture bothers me - religious literature and myths are powerful concentrators of meaning and feeling. Leon Lederman may have called this last boson the god particle, or at least was talked into it by his publisher, but he does not like it now. Few physicists do. Few might mean none. Only media foment the term. It's like Sultan of Swat. I'd bet nobody on the 1930s Yankees roster ever address Babe Ruth as "Hey Sultan" except maybe to mock reporter-talk. One wonders if anybody on today's Yankee squad...