There's also the possibility it was named the God particle ironically, as in it ought to be there if the predictions made for its existence are anything to go by; but buggered if anyone can find it.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'