09 October, 2018

Lederman's ghostly particles



An experimental physicist who won a Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work on subatomic particles has died aged 96. 
Leon Lederman coined the phrase "God particle", a shorthand description of the then-theoretical Higgs boson, in the title of a 1993 book.

From The Independent  

In the quote above Lederman was probably referring to bosons, but the fact the even he began to see this as a return of the aether is very interesting.

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