{"id":116019,"date":"2020-11-18T12:23:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/six-questions-physicists-ask-when-evaluating-scientific-claims"},"modified":"2020-11-18T12:23:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:23:51","slug":"six-questions-physicists-ask-when-evaluating-scientific-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/six-questions-physicists-ask-when-evaluating-scientific-claims","title":{"rendered":"Six questions physicists ask when evaluating scientific claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/six-questions-physicists-ask-when-evaluating-scientific-claims.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not all scientific claims are equal. How can you tell if a discovery is real?<\/p>\n<p>Extremely massive fundamental particles could exist, but they would seriously mess with our understanding of quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>Handedness\u2014and the related concept of chirality\u2014are double-sided ways of understanding how matter breaks symmetries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all scientific claims are equal. How can you tell if a discovery is real? Extremely massive fundamental particles could exist, but they would seriously mess with our understanding of quantum mechanics. Handedness\u2014and the related concept of chirality\u2014are double-sided ways of understanding how matter breaks symmetries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116019","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}