GENEVA: To cheers and standing ovations, scientists at the world's
biggest atom smasher claimed the discovery of a new subatomic particle
on Wednesday, calling it "consistent" with the long-sought Higgs Boson— popularly known as the " God particle" — that helps explain what gives all matter in the universe size and shape.
'Boson' (honor of Satyendra Nath Bose) and 'fermion' (honor of Enrico Fermi) etc have been accepted as common nouns in scientific parlance, hence no need to capitalize their initial letters. All particles that have integral spin quantum number are called "boson". For example, 3N force is expanded as 3 newton, and not 3 Newton - here "newton" is not capitalized to honor Sir Issac Newton. Similarly 'F' in 'fermion' is not capitalized to honor Fermi, 'B' in 'boson' is not capitalized to honor Bose - as those are particles. This is the practice followed in all good text books and scientific journals. This is because, just like kilogram or second, newton is a unit. I have been a researcher at CERN and Fermi Lab. People in scientific community actually respect and acknowledge S N Bose's contributions. They respect S N Bose, because they actually understand Bose-Einstein Statistics, Bose-Einstein Condensation etc. About Higgs, yes, he predicted that there should be a fifth kind of field to account for mass of electrons and other particles in equations of Weak Nuclear force. And the quantum unit of every field is a particle. And particle can have either integer or non-integer spin quantum number. Higgs particle was predicted to have integer spin, hence it falls in the category of bosons and not fermions. PS: Higgs research is independent and Prof Bose (father of boson) is not related to this work. In scientific community, Prof Bose is well recognized for his works. .
'Boson' (honor of Satyendra Nath Bose) and 'fermion' (honor of Enrico Fermi) etc have been accepted as common nouns in scientific parlance, hence no need to capitalize their initial letters. All particles that have integral spin quantum number are called "boson". For example, 3N force is expanded as 3 newton, and not 3 Newton - here "newton" is not capitalized to honor Sir Issac Newton. Similarly 'F' in 'fermion' is not capitalized to honor Fermi, 'B' in 'boson' is not capitalized to honor Bose - as those are particles. This is the practice followed in all good text books and scientific journals. This is because, just like kilogram or second, newton is a unit. I have been a researcher at CERN and Fermi Lab. People in scientific community actually respect and acknowledge S N Bose's contributions. They respect S N Bose, because they actually understand Bose-Einstein Statistics, Bose-Einstein Condensation etc. About Higgs, yes, he predicted that there should be a fifth kind of field to account for mass of electrons and other particles in equations of Weak Nuclear force. And the quantum unit of every field is a particle. And particle can have either integer or non-integer spin quantum number. Higgs particle was predicted to have integer spin, hence it falls in the category of bosons and not fermions. PS: Higgs research is independent and Prof Bose (father of boson) is not related to this work. In scientific community, Prof Bose is well recognized for his works. .
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