God particle
Britishnoun
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Dubbed "the God particle", its discovery in 2012 broadened science's understanding of how particles acquire mass and earned physicists Peter Higgs and Francois Englert the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026
And so was born “Particle Fever,” a new documentary that follows a handful of scientists at CERN: living and working, partying and studying, in their quest for the so-called God particle.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2014
This, perhaps, is akin to physicists discovering the God particle and deciding not to tell us – on account of the God particle actually being a murderous old bigot.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2013
The particle earned a nickname - the "God particle" - supposedly because of its importance to the Standard Model.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2012
Scientists first predicted the existence of the Higgs boson, nicknamed the "God particle" by some in the popular media, in the 1960s to explain why other particles have mass.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 12, 2012
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