Many physicists hate the term "God particle" because it did not originate in the way you might think.

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The God particle is an integral solution to explaining a theory of everything, and thus serves a useful purpose.

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The boson earned a nickname - the "God particle" - supposedly because of its importance to the Standard Model.

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Scientists are still hedging their bets by using the phrase "Higgs-like" in their press material, but when the chances of observing the same experimental results sans God Particle are one in 550 million, we'd say it's pretty safe to drop the pretense.

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