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Letter: Letters : . . . . .

Published 5 January 2002

From Peter Kosmider

Edgware, Middlesex

It seems to me that the concept of a “Higgs boson” bears all the hallmarks of
being a prime example of that common fudge well known to classical dramatists as
the deus ex machina, otherwise known as the Variable Scientific Constant (sic).
Its other name, the “God particle”, is not entirely inappropriate.

Issue no. 2324 published 5 January 2002

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