Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:44:41 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
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Subject: [WSFA] The Higgs boson: What has God got to do with it?
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Excerpt:
"We don't call it the 'God particle', it's just the media that do that,"
a senior U.S. scientist politely told an interviewer on a major European
radio station on Tuesday.

"Well, I am the from the media and I'm going to continue calling it
that," said the journalist - and continued to do so.

The exchange, as physicists at the CERN research centre near Geneva were
preparing to announce the latest news from their long and frustrating
search for the Higgs boson, illustrated sharply how science and the
popular media are not always a good mix.

"I hate that 'God particle' term," said Pauline Gagnon, a Canadian
member of CERN's ATLAS team of so-called "Higgs hunters" - an epithet
they do not reject.
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<http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/13/us-science-higgs-god-idUSTRE7BC28H20111213>

Is it just me, or do I hear Tina Turner singing this, "What's God Got to
Do With It?"

          mark
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