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The God Particle (book)

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The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? is a 1993 popular science book by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon M. Lederman and science writer Dick Teresi.

Lederman wanted to published the book with the title "The Goddamn Particle", due to the immense difficulty and expense in detecting it, but the publisher did not accept such an inappropriate word in the title. In this way the term "God particle was coined".[1]

For more information, see Wikipedia.

References

  1. Leon M. Lederman and Dick Teresi (2006) [1993]. The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question?. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 978-0-61871-168-0.