{"id":75,"date":"2011-12-13T20:32:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T01:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/?p=75"},"modified":"2011-12-16T15:54:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T20:54:15","slug":"higgs-you-in-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Higgs? You in there?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) aren&#8217;t quite claiming they&#8217;ve found the elusive Higgs boson &#8220;God particle,&#8221; but they say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/article\/2011-12\/tantalizing-glimpse-no-definitive-higgs-sighting-yet-%E2%80%94-wait-2012\">the latest proton collisions show &#8220;tantalizing hints&#8221;<\/a> at its existence.  Finding Higgs means finding the particle that gives everything in the universe its mass, according to the Standard Model of particle physics. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/files\/imagecache\/article_image_large\/articles\/run177878.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Check out Leon Lederman&#8217;s popular science book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0618711686\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=robsteinercom&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0618711686\">The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question?<\/a>, for a primer on the Higgs boson.  His book&#8217;s title is actually where the term &#8220;God particle&#8221; comes from, a term that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/blog\/2009\/may\/29\/why-call-it-the-god-particle-higgs-boson-cern-lhc\">most scientists apparently hate<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) aren&#8217;t quite claiming they&#8217;ve found the elusive Higgs boson &#8220;God particle,&#8221; but they say the latest proton collisions show &#8220;tantalizing hints&#8221; at its existence. Finding Higgs means finding the particle that gives everything in the universe its mass, according to the Standard Model of particle physics. Check out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}