Higgs Boson information from Wired's site

[kmallick]

Loved your mathematicians joke Al.

I must say that Peter Higgs lends just a little dignity to this very expensive discovery, a dignity which is seriously eroded by the fact that the thing is called a boson. I had hoped the Large Hadron Collider might find something more grandly named. I wonder what is the German for boson — maybe that has a more impressive sound.

Boson is not sexy or German. Its named after this pioneering Indian scientist, Satyendra Nath Bose; also famous for Bose-Einstein statistics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendra_Nath_Bose

 

[Lawrence Sheperd]

A Higgs-Bboson walks into a liturgical church.

Priest hurries over and says, "I'm very, very sorry, but we don't allow Higgs-Bosons in here."

HB: "But, without me, you can't have mass!"

Priceless! :angel: