{"id":13438,"date":"2013-02-19T12:18:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T17:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=13438"},"modified":"2013-02-19T12:18:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T17:18:11","slug":"will-our-universe-end-in-a-big-slurp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/02\/19\/will-our-universe-end-in-a-big-slurp\/","title":{"rendered":"Will our universe end in a &#8216;big slurp&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The full title of this piece from <em>NBC News<\/em> is <a title=\"NBC article\" href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/02\/18\/17006552-will-our-universe-end-in-a-big-slurp-higgs-like-particle-suggests-it-might?\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Will our universe end in a &#8216;big slurp&#8217;? Higgs-like particle suggests it might<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the &#8220;Higgs-like particle&#8221; discovered last year is really the long-sought Higgs boson, the bad news is that its mass suggests the universe will end in a fast-spreading bubble of doom. The good news? It&#8217;ll probably be tens of billions of years before that particular doomsday arrives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know who thought up the name &#8220;big slurp&#8221;, but I think that person deserves a medal of some sort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The full title of this piece from NBC News is Will our universe end in a &#8216;big slurp&#8217;? Higgs-like particle suggests it might. If the &#8220;Higgs-like particle&#8221; discovered last year is really the long-sought Higgs boson, the bad news is that its mass suggests the universe will end in a fast-spreading bubble of doom. The [&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":["post-13438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13438","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=13438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13439,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13438\/revisions\/13439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}