Oh my god particle travells 99.9995% speed of light.

One of the most entertaining names that I’ve come across in the physics sector is the “Oh My God Particle.”

Now, the first thing that may pop into some of your minds is the Higgs Boson, which was discovered in 2012.

This isn’t too surprising as the media went around calling it the “God Particle.” However, these two particles are very different. So what is the Oh My God Particle? Well it is a simple, lowly proton. So why the name?

This proton had the effective mass-energy of a baseball traveling at 90 km/h (56 mph)! This type of particle is known as a cosmic ray, they’re generally just protons but can sometimes be a Helium atom or even an electron.

What makes them so interesting is that they’re traveling very near the speed of light, and the Oh My God Particle is the fastest ever found.

watch the video below