Peter Higgs, the theoretical physicist who first postulated the existence of the elusive Higgs boson, is nicely profiled in this week's TIME. As one might expect, he is eagerly awaiting the start-up of the LHC in hopes of having his little particle confirmed as a bona fide member of the Standard Model.
That's the good news. The bad news is that Rush Limbaugh saw the TIME article, and the obligatory media reference to to "the god particle" (yeah, yeah, particle physicists hate the moniker), and promptly used it to mock Higgs, telling Higgs to look out his window at all the pretty trees and flowers in Nature if he wants to "see" god.
This is why the god particle moniker sucks. But it seems we're stuck with it. And with Limbaugh.
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