Particle Physics - Higgs Boson - What’s in a Name? Parsing the ‘God Particle,’ the Ultimate Metaphor - New York Times

An interesting article, and a come-back for anyone who has a religious person bandy about the 'god particle' as evidence that science has found god.

Particle Physics - Higgs Boson - What’s in a Name? Parsing the ‘God Particle,’ the Ultimate Metaphor - New York Times

What’s in a Name? Parsing the ‘God Particle,’ the Ultimate Metaphor
By
DENNIS OVERBYE
Published: August 7, 2007
The biggest name-dropper in
science, Albert Einstein, mentioned God often enough that one could imagine he
and the “Old One” had a standing date for coffee or tennis.