Just like watching a miracle before your eyes without seeing God or an angel perform it, a certain amount of faith is still required to understand and explain it. First, the publisher did not allow us to call it the Damned Particle, although that might be a more appropriate title, given its evil nature and the expenses it is causing. And they can even provide scientists with a direct and fully observable view of that very elusive God Particle. And while the name of the divine particle may ring a bell to many, it is still not as well-known as the enormous device used to finally demonstrate its existence: the Large Hadron Collider.
After turning on the LHC and smashing protons and observing what was happening, the scientists were practically certain that they had conclusively observed the so-called God particle, even though they hadn't seen it. So maybe we should lowercase the particle of God in God? Or better yet, just call it The Totally Secular Particle.
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