Don't call it the Lord's seed

Professor Peter Higgs, who first published the hypothesis of the existence of the Higgs, wanted people to stop calling it "God's seed" because he was an atheist.

In July last year, physicists from the European Atomic Research Organization (CERN) announced they had found a particle with the same characteristics as the Higgs particle, which produced mass for matter in the universe. , thanks to the large particle accelerator.

The Higgs particle helps humans explain why mass particles (such as quarks, leptons, bosons) have mass - a characteristic that allows them to bind together by gravity to make stars, planets, and water. , stone, gas. If particles do not have mass, they will move chaotic in the universe at the speed of light and do not create any form of matter. In that case the universe would be a chaotic mass like a soup bowl.

Professor Peter Higgs. (Photo: Guardian)

Due to the importance of the Higgs for the entire universe, people often call it "the seed of God". But Professor Peter Higgs, who first published its hypothesis, did not like the "Lord's seed" name .He gave two reasons to explain his view, Telegraph reported.

"First, I'm an atheist, so I don't believe in the existence of God. Second, that name is just a joke so it's not a logical name," he said.

Leon Lederman, a physicist who received the Nobel Prize, and Dick Teresi, a writer of science fiction, were the first to use the term "God's particle" in a fairly famous work of theirs. in 1993. Higgs initially stated that Lederman and Teresi used the term "God's particle" to joke, but later it became a common term.

"It's not a funny name and can make people misunderstand the nature of the Higgs," the 83-year-old professor commented.