Researchers studying photonic crystals say they have successfully created a form of pseudogravity that bends light just like real gravity. The new technique could have a dramatic effect on advanced communication technologies like 6G, as well as other applications in optics and materials science that could benefit from a no-contact method of manipulating light.

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    Lederman explains in the book why he gave the Higgs boson the nickname “The God Particle”:

    This boson is so central to the state of physics today, so crucial to our final understanding of the structure of matter, yet so elusive, that I have given it a nickname: the God Particle. Why God Particle? Two reasons. One, the publisher wouldn’t let us call it the Goddamn Particle, though that might be a more appropriate title, given its villainous nature and the expense it is causing. And two, there is a connection, of sorts, to another book, a much older one…

    MythBusters: Confirmed. Media of the time did indeed force the name.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_Particle_(book)

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      Yes I read the Wikipedia article too. My point is that colorful, non-scientific language has been used to describe scientific principles.