Q. What is known as God particle?
Answer: Higgs boson
Notes: Higgs boson is known as the "God particle". It's an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics. The Higgs boson is the carrier particle of the Higgs field, which gives mass to all elementary subatomic particles. The Higgs boson is said to have caused the Big Bang that created the universe. The Higgs boson is also known as the "God particle" because scientists had to believe in its existence for a generation. The nickname comes from the 1993 book The God Particle by Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman. However, many physicists have criticized the nickname. The Higgs boson was discovered on July 4, 2012 by researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland. The LHC is the world's most powerful particle accelerator.

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