Comments on: First Links – 7.5.12 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/07/05/first-links-7-5-12/ A First Things Blog Tue, 21 May 2013 14:37:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jack Perry http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/07/05/first-links-7-5-12/comment-page-1/#comment-66511 Jack Perry Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:23:42 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=44891#comment-66511 Ray,

You’d better reread your source. The word “jokingly” is somewhat crucial to the meaning.

]]> By: Ray Ingles http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/07/05/first-links-7-5-12/comment-page-1/#comment-66496 Ray Ingles Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:30:58 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=44891#comment-66496 Re: The “God particle”: Usually this nickname for the Higgs boson is attributed to Leon Lederman, the author of the book The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?, but the name is the result of the insistence of Lederman’s publisher: Lederman had originally intended to refer to it as the “goddamn particle”.

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