{"id":111715,"date":"2020-08-21T08:25:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T15:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/physicists-say-theyve-found-evidence-of-elusive-axion-particle"},"modified":"2020-08-21T08:25:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T15:25:56","slug":"physicists-say-theyve-found-evidence-of-elusive-axion-particle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/physicists-say-theyve-found-evidence-of-elusive-axion-particle","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Say They\u2019ve Found Evidence of Elusive Axion Particle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-say-theyve-found-evidence-of-elusive-axion-particle.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While axions are not currently a proposed direct explanation for dark matter, they could\u2019ve set the stage for the creation of dark matter in the early stages of our universe.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists are undeniably excited by this third possibility, though they\u2019re also urging restraint due to the other potential explanations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m trying to be calm here, but it\u2019s hard not to be hyperbolic,\u201d Neal Weiner, a particle theorist at New York University, who was not involved in the research, told <em>The New York Times<\/em>. \u201cIf this is real, calling it a game changer would be an understatement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While axions are not currently a proposed direct explanation for dark matter, they could\u2019ve set the stage for the creation of dark matter in the early stages of our universe. Scientists are undeniably excited by this third possibility, though they\u2019re also urging restraint due to the other potential explanations. \u201cI\u2019m trying to be calm here, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111715","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=111715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}