Simulation of protons colliding to form a Higgs (et al.) boson (via NSF).
Now that it seems the Higgs boson has probably been discovered, other researchers than Peter Higgs would seem entitled to justice. There were, in all, five other researchers who had the idea, and members of the physicists’ community are asking that the thing be properly named the Brout-Englert-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble particle.
Nestor says:
The BEHGHK Boson? I’m afraid Higgs has this one, first naming rights are hard to shake once they get established in the public mind.
November 21, 2012, 8:29 amHarry Payne says:
Please remember Satyendra Nath Bose, for whom Paul Dirac named the Boson.
The reason for Professor Bose’s absence from the discussion of the Higgs particle may possibly be determined from his full name.
November 23, 2012, 5:40 pmH. E. Parmer says:
To think that but for an accident of fate, we’d be calling it the Kibble Particle.
November 26, 2012, 1:22 amAndrii says:
For some reason it became very quiet around this topic
November 28, 2012, 1:11 pm