<P> A considerable amount has been written on how Higgs' name came to be exclusively used . Two main explanations are offered . The first is that Higgs undertook a step which was either unique, clearer or more explicit in his paper in formally predicting and examining the particle . Of the PRL papers' authors, only the paper by Higgs explicitly offered as a prediction that a massive particle would exist and calculated some of its properties; he was therefore "the first to postulate the existence of a massive particle" according to Nature . Physicist and author Frank Close and physicist - blogger Peter Woit both comment that the paper by GHK was also completed after Higgs and Brout--Englert were submitted to Physical Review Letters. and that Higgs alone had drawn attention to a predicted massive scalar boson, while all others had focused on the massive vector bosons; In this way, Higgs' contribution also provided experimentalists with a crucial "concrete target" needed to test the theory . However, in Higgs' view, Brout and Englert did not explicitly mention the boson since its existence is plainly obvious in their work, while according to Guralnik the GHK paper was a complete analysis of the entire symmetry breaking mechanism whose mathematical rigour is absent from the other two papers, and a massive particle may exist in some solutions . Higgs' paper also provided an "especially sharp" statement of the challenge and its solution according to science historian David Kaiser . </P> <P> The alternative explanation is that the name was popularised in the 1970s due to its use as a convenient shorthand or because of a mistake in citing . Many accounts (including Higgs' own) credit the "Higgs" name to physicist Benjamin Lee (in Korean: Lee Whi - soh). Lee was a significant populist for the theory in its early stages, and habitually attached the name "Higgs" as a "convenient shorthand" for its components from 1972 and in at least one instance from as early as 1966 . Although Lee clarified in his footnotes that "' Higgs' is an abbreviation for Higgs, Kibble, Guralnik, Hagen, Brout, Englert", his use of the term (and perhaps also Steven Weinberg's mistaken cite of Higgs' paper as the first in his seminal 1967 paper) meant that by around 1975--76 others had also begun to use the name' Higgs' exclusively as a shorthand . </P> <P> The Higgs boson is often referred to as the "God particle" in popular media outside the scientific community . The nickname comes from the title of the 1993 book on the Higgs boson and particle physics, The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? by Nobel Physics prizewinner and Fermilab director Leon Lederman . Lederman wrote it in the context of failing US government support for the Superconducting Super Collider, a part - constructed titanic competitor to the Large Hadron Collider with planned collision energies of 2 × 20 TeV that was championed by Lederman since its 1983 inception and shut down in 1993 . The book sought in part to promote awareness of the significance and need for such a project in the face of its possible loss of funding . Lederman, a leading researcher in the field, writes that he wanted to title his book The Goddamn Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question? Lederman's editor decided that the title was too controversial and convinced him to change the title to The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question? </P> <P> While media use of this term may have contributed to wider awareness and interest, many scientists feel the name is inappropriate since it is sensational hyperbole and misleads readers; the particle also has nothing to do with God, leaves open numerous questions in fundamental physics, and does not explain the ultimate origin of the universe . Higgs, an atheist, was reported to be displeased and stated in a 2008 interview that he found it "embarrassing" because it was "the kind of misuse...which I think might offend some people". Science writer Ian Sample stated in his 2010 book on the search that the nickname is "universally hate (d)" by physicists and perhaps the "worst derided" in the history of physics, but that (according to Lederman) the publisher rejected all titles mentioning "Higgs" as unimaginative and too unknown . </P>

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