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Originally Posted by Stumptown
If they do find proof of it, I hope that means that everyone will stop calling it the frigging "god" particle. I don't think there's any definition of "god" that means enabling matter to have mass. Never understood where that misnomer came from, and I'll be really glad to be rid of it.
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I asked a professor specifically about this who happened to be sitting in my office one day.
Laymans warning here, this was my interpretation of his answer:
His explanation of it, from what I understood, was that it will pretty much unify the known laws of physics, and give physicists a complete understanding of how it all works, taking away any doubt of the origins of the universe. I guess some how this particle will confirm the theory of relativity, the structure, and the ultimate fate of the universe, as they will be able to confirm what model the universe falls into, and if it will cool off, rip apart, or collapse. And it will prove the dark matter theory and how atoms covert gravity/energy to mass, when they are essentially empty space.
Essentially, to a believer, the only being that would know these things, essentially would be god, if he did exist, and if he indeed was the creator (which he doesn't and isn't
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Anyway, that is what a dumb dumb like me took away from the conversation.