{"id":1129,"date":"2003-08-18T15:12:06","date_gmt":"2003-08-18T19:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2003\/08\/18\/\/"},"modified":"2003-08-18T15:12:06","modified_gmt":"2003-08-18T19:12:06","slug":"1129","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2003\/08\/1129\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/atom.jpg\" alt=\"atom\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/cooltech.iafrica.com\/science\/249608.htm\" rel=\"external\"><strong>The hunt for the God particle<\/strong><\/a><br \/>&#8220;<strong>One of the greatest prizes in modern physics &#8211; the confirmation or otherwise of a theoretical sub-atomic particle called the Higgs boson &#8211; is back up for grabs.<\/strong> In 2000, scientists at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland came, they believed, within a hair&#8217;s-breadth of spotting the Higgs before their atom-smasher had to be scrapped to make way for a more powerful machine, due to be finished in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>If the Higgs is discovered, that would <strong>fill the gap in the Standard Model<\/strong> and comfortingly confirm our perception of what the Universe is and how it works.<\/p>\n<p>But if it is proved that the Higgs does not exist, that would be a huge event. It would open the way for a whole range of alternative theories to replace the Standard Model \u2014 that, for instance, there are overlapping <strong>&#8220;parallel&#8221; Universes or higher dimensions<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hunt for the God particle&#8220;One of the greatest prizes in modern physics &#8211; the confirmation or otherwise of a theoretical sub-atomic particle called the Higgs boson &#8211; is back up for grabs. In 2000, scientists at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland came, they believed, within a hair&#8217;s-breadth of spotting the Higgs before their atom-smasher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}