What nickname would you give the Higgs boson?

While scientists applauded closing in on discovering the long-sought Higgs boson, its popular nickname "God particle" has attracted more than a few head shakes and calls for its outright expulsion.

The subatomic particle has been labelled the "God particle" in the mainstream media because of the fundamental questions it could answer about matter and the creation of the universe, and although most physicists avoid using the term, they do agree that the Higgs boson plays a key role in what is known as the Standard Model of particle physics, which describes the particles from which everything in the universe is made and how they interact.

"I don't like to call it the god particle, I prefer call it the Higgs Boson, which is its proper name," said CBC's science expert Bob MacDonald.

This 2011 image provide by CERN shows a real CMS proton-proton collision in a 2011 event. (CERN/Associated Press) "The Higgs boson has no particular relation to God. It was called that because it's the keystone piece of a model we've been trying to follow up for the last 40 years," said research scientist Isabel Trigger on CBC News Now. "If...there hadn't been a Higgs boson - if we'd demonstrated that there wasn't one - the whole model would have fallen apart like an archway where you removed the keystone."

The term's origin may have another, even less glamorous source. Leon Lederman's 1993 book The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What is the Question? introduced the term to the public, enamoring headline writers and irritating scientists at once.

But Peter Biggs said that Lederman originally wanted to call it "The Goddamn Particle" to express the frustration involved in trying to find it in the first place. Lederman's publisher shortened it to "God particle" to avoid offending readers, but it might have had the opposite intended effect over the years.

If "God particle" doesn't cut it, then, what would be a more appropriate nickname for the Higgs boson? Can you think of a title befitting the fundamental building block of particle physics as we know it? Or should it simply be referred to as the Higgs boson, without other flowery monikers? Share your ideas in the comments section below.