From a post to the NYT WRT the Higgs boson:

[Jonathan Lighter]

God said, "Let there be light!"

So shouldn't the photon be the "God particle"?

(OK, OK, to Catholics he said, "Let there be mass!" The boson it is.)

JL

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> "Science has _given_ a very large step."
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> Shouldn't that be "_taken_ …"?
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> My dear wife has long been peeved by confusion between "*bring*" and
> "take." Confusion between "*give*" and "take" may well  push her over
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