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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theia_%28planet%29#Theia wrote:
<<Pindar praises Theia in his Fifth Isthmian ode: Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you bestow on them, o queen, ships contending on the sea and yoked teams of horses in swift-whirling contests become marvels.

Theia: the hypothesized protoplanet is derived from the mythical Greek titan Theia, who gave birth to the Moon goddess, Selene. This designation was proposed initially by the English geochemist Alex N. Halliday in 2000 and has become accepted in the scientific community. According to modern theories of planet formation, Theia was part of a population of Mars-sized bodies that existed in the Solar System 4.5 billion years ago. Indeed, one of the attractive features of the giant impact hypothesis is that the formation of the Moon fits into the context of the formation of the Earth: during the course of its formation, the Earth is thought to have experienced dozens of collisions with such planet-sized bodies. The Moon-forming collision would have been only one such "giant impact" and, perhaps, the last.>>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson#Naming wrote:

[url=http://www.simonmccann.com/higgs-bozo-finally-discovered/][size=150]Higgs Bozon finally discovered![/size][/url]

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<<The name most strongly associated with the particle and field is the Higgs boson and Higgs field. For some time the particle was known by a combination of its PRL author names, for example the Brout–Englert–Higgs particle, or the Englert–Brout–Higgs–Guralnik–Hagen–Kibble mechanism, and these are still used at times. Fueled in part by the issue of recognition and a potential shared Nobel Prize, the most appropriate name is still occasionally a topic of debate as at 2012. (Higgs himself prefers to call the particle either by an acronym of all those involved, or "the scalar boson", or "the so-called Higgs particle".)

Of the PRL papers' authors, only the paper by Higgs explicitly offered as a prediction, that a massive particle would exist, and calculated some of its properties; he was therefore "the first to postulate the existence of a massive particle" according to Nature.

Author Frank Close notes that Higgs alone had drawn attention to a predicted massive scalar boson, while all others had focused on the massive vector bosons. However in Higgs' view, Brout and Englert did not explicitly mention the boson since its existence is plainly obvious in their work, while according to Guralnik the GHK paper was a complete analysis of the entire symmetry breaking mechanism whose mathematical rigour is absent from the other two papers, and a massive particle may exist in some solutions.

The name was popularised in the 1970s due to its use as a convenient shorthand or because of a mistake in citing. Many accounts credit the "Higgs" name to physicist Benjamin Lee. Lee was a significant populist for the theory in its early stages, and habitually attached the name "Higgs" as a "convenient shorthand" for its components from 1972 and in at least one instance from as early as 1966. Although Lee clarified in his footnotes that "'Higgs' is an abbreviation for Higgs, Kibble, Guralnik, Hagen, Brout, Englert", his use of the term (and perhaps also Steven Weinberg's mistaken cite of Higgs' paper as the first in his seminal 1967 paper) meant that by around 1975–76 others had also begun to use the name 'Higgs' exclusively as a shorthand.>>

Beyond wrote:
Gee, i named that 'tune' in two clues.

I wonder how many thought of it in the first clue,
but didn't say anything

Moonlady wrote:The Planck Units?

Or the subatomic particles?