{"id":108262,"date":"2020-06-06T09:45:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T16:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/cracking-open-the-proton"},"modified":"2020-06-06T09:45:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T16:45:15","slug":"cracking-open-the-proton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/cracking-open-the-proton","title":{"rendered":"Cracking open the proton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cracking-open-the-proton.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>:0000<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Physicists around the world are cracking open the proton, within the nucleus of the atom, to see what\u2019s inside.<\/p>\n<p>The proton is a fundamental building block of the atomic nucleus, and among other things it\u2019s used as a medical probe in magnetic resonance imaging. It also has a rich inner structure made up of subatomic particles called quarks and gluons, which bind the quarks together.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists are running a unique experiment involving the world\u2019s largest particle physics laboratory and the world\u2019s fastest university supercomputer to see and understand the dynamic world inside the proton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>:0000 Physicists around the world are cracking open the proton, within the nucleus of the atom, to see what\u2019s inside. The proton is a fundamental building block of the atomic nucleus, and among other things it\u2019s used as a medical probe in magnetic resonance imaging. It also has a rich inner structure made up of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}