WHAT IS GOD PARTICLE ?

                 WHAT IS GOD PARTICLE ?                                     

Godparticle is the nickname of a subatomic particle called HIGGS BOSON.

In layman’s terms, different subatomic particles are responsible for giving matter different properties. One of the most mysterious and important properties is mass. Some particles, like Protons and neutrons have mass others, like photons, don’t. The Higgs boson or God particle is believed to be the particle which gave mass to matter. The God particle nickname grew out of the long, drawn-out struggles of the physicists to find this elusive piece of the cosmic puzzle. The capture of the most wanted sub-atomic particle in the physics is named as ‘Science journal’s Break through of the year of 2012’.

Scientists have been chasing the Higgs boson, for more than four decades. In July 2012 the team from European nuclear research facility at CERN in Geneva announced the detection of a particle that fitted the description of the elusive Higgs.

The boson is believed to give matter mass via an associated ‘Higgs field’ that permeates space. Without the property of mass, the universe we lived in could not exist.

       

 On October 2013 François Englert and Peter Higgs is awarded with Novel Prize for their work on Higgs particle.

“The Scientific discovery is also Religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world”.