(July 5, 2012 at 4:54 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I hate it when scientists use layperson's ambiguous language to communicate a finding.
"god" in the "god particle" is merely a metaphor, barring the real frustration of the scientist who said "goddamned particle", in trying to find it, which the media and theist took off with. But the people who do use it in the science community are really talking about a ceiling they have just breached. Now that we have evidence of the HB particle, scientists are most certainly going to try to look for something even smaller. Then that particle will be dubbed the new "god particle,"
So to all the scientific community, please don't feed the fundies. Come up with distinct terminology that cannot be confused with myth, because the masses WILL run with it.
It's almost as bad as when non-experts try to draw theological lessons from scientific results. "Godel's incompleteness theorems means you can't prove God exists! Fractals are like the trinity!"
So incredibly painful to listen to.
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
