What are 'God Particles'? Why do scientists avoid that name?

What are 'God Particles'? Why do scientists avoid that name? 

During his time at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom, the world-renowned physicist Peter Higgs published a dissertation entitled The Origin of Mass. About 14 billion years ago, the Big Bang, believed by most scientists to have been the cause of the catastrophe, occurred. The scattered elements from that explosion scattered at different speeds than the speed of light in different directions. Such scattered elements have no mass. Peter Hicks noted in his dissertation that those elements that have no mass gain mass when they combine in an energy field. 

Mass is also refers to the amount of material imposed on a commodity. With the mass of the object, its weight is obtained by multiplying the force of gravity at its location. For example, the weight of the same object or person on the earth and the moon is different because the gravitational force of the two is different. 

That energy field is called 'Higgs Field' by scientists, and the particles that are in that energy field and give mass to all the objects in the universe are called 'Higgs Bosons'. The existence of these particles, as hypothesized by Peter Higgs in the 1960s, was tested in 2012 by the European Atomic Research Center on the French-Swiss border with the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, located underground. Confirmed. Until then it was considered something that could not be found and was impossible. Before we look at why these particles are identified with God, let us look at the Indian connection to the name 'Higgs boson'.

 

Boson - Name of Indian Scientist. 

All the objects in this universe are made of atoms. Those atoms are made up of protons, electrons and neutrons. Protons and neutrons can also be broken down into atomic particles. These atomic particles can be classified into either basic particles or compound particles. Elemental particles can be classified into two types as bosons and fermions. In honour of the contribution of Indian scientist Satyendranath Bose to the development of Bose-Einstein's theory, one of the key principles of quantum statistics, scientist Paul Adrian Track named the elementary particles based on this theory 'bosons'. The name 'Higgs boson' came from the fact that these particles, as hypothesized by Higgs, are based on the Bose-Einstein statistical theory that there are many particles operating in the same quantum state.

 

How did the name 'God Particles' come about?

Leon Max Lederman, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics, co-authored a book with author Dick Teresi entitled 'The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?' Is. The title of the book, published in 1993, was The Goddamn Particle. The English word 'goddamn' is used to express anger caused by boredom or hatred. The publisher of the book does not like the title, which describes the 'boson' particles that slip out of the researchers' eyes. Leon Max Lederman and Dick Therese mentioned in the book that this is why it was renamed 'The God Particle'.

 

The existence of the ‘Higgs boson’ particle has been suggested, and its existence has not been confirmed in various studies over the years. They wrote 'goddamn' because of the boredom caused by that. That is what has been translated into as 'God Particles'. Since religions believe that God created the world, this particle, which gives weight to all the things in the world, is nicknamed 'God Particle' by Sarah. However, many clergymen have vehemently opposed the depiction or reference to the then-unknown particles as gods. Scientists do not call it so because it is not an official name. 

(Many false claims are being made on the internet and on social media in the name of scientific reasons. The BBC is releasing a Tamil series called "Myth Buster" explaining the real reasons for some of them. This is the second part of the series.)

Source By: Vigenesh. A, BBC Tamil.

Information: Ramesh, Assistant Professor of Physics, Nehru Memorial College, Puthanampatti, Trichy.