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I hope when it is discovered then journalists can give up on the nickname "God particle".

Sheesh, it's just the Higgs Boson. It gives mass to particles. It didn't create the universe. It doesn't turn water into wine. It doesn't smite ancient middle-eastern cities for playing with their wangs. And it doesn't love you or demand you love it in return.

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All the things you listed seem to be propagated by religions, rather than being abilities of a God or things that non-religious people report about gods.

Fine. It doesn't have a giant hammer or throw lightning bolts or... wait, what do non-religious people report about gods?

The following might seem somewhat far fetched to you, but then again, when I was in your position it seemed that way to me too. One thing non-religious people are able to report about God is that what we call a god means the consciousness which is generated by activities. Consciousness is like an electrical signal in that it will transmit any information input into it. Something recorded in a consciousness can be said not to have very much mass compared to the actual object which was met, so curiously (and not coincidentally), people calling the Higgs particle the god particle is actually as wrong as the religious accounts of gods ability because god doesn't have the ability to change massive things by itself. Hope this makes more sense..

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