{"id":11467,"date":"2012-07-04T13:14:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T18:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=11467"},"modified":"2012-07-04T13:16:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T18:16:05","slug":"its-a-boson-higgs-quest-bears-new-particle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/07\/04\/its-a-boson-higgs-quest-bears-new-particle\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s a boson:&#8221; Higgs quest bears new particle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only in America ccould this <em>Reuters<\/em> article, <a title=\"Reuters article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/07\/04\/us-science-higgs-idUSBRE86008K20120704\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s a boson:&#8221; Higgs quest bears new particle<\/strong><\/a>, appear in a political blog.\u00a0 Only in America would the following statement describing the standard model in physics be controversial:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is the last undiscovered piece of the Standard Model that describes the fundamental make-up of the universe. The model is for physicists what the theory of evolution is for biologists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think I like the following description of the Higgs boson.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scientists struggling to explain the theory have likened Higgs particles to a throng of paparazzi photographers; the greater the &#8220;celebrity&#8221; of a passing particle, the more the Higgs bosons get in its way and slow it down, imparting it mass; but a particle such as a photon of light is of no interest to the paparazzi and passes through easily &#8211; a photon has no mass.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only in America ccould this Reuters article, &#8220;It&#8217;s a boson:&#8221; Higgs quest bears new particle, appear in a political blog.\u00a0 Only in America would the following statement describing the standard model in physics be controversial: It is the last undiscovered piece of the Standard Model that describes the fundamental make-up of the universe. The model [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11469,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467\/revisions\/11469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}