{"id":116045,"date":"2020-11-19T10:04:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T18:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/particle-physicists-continue-empty-promises"},"modified":"2020-11-19T10:04:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T18:04:19","slug":"particle-physicists-continue-empty-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/particle-physicists-continue-empty-promises","title":{"rendered":"Particle Physicists Continue Empty Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9qqEU1Q-gYE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The CERN in Geneva has become a sink for public money.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time there\u2019s a lack of funding in other research areas, that would be much more urgent!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In this video I explain why building a next larger particle collider will most likely not tell us anything about dark matter and why, therefore, claims by prominent particle physicists that dark matter would be a \u201cguaranteed result\u201d are misleading.<\/p>\n<p>The piece that I quote in the beginning is this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-020-01054-6\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-020-01054-6<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/particle-physicists-continue-empty-promises\">Continue reading \u201cParticle Physicists Continue Empty Promises\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CERN in Geneva has become a sink for public money. At the same time there\u2019s a lack of funding in other research areas, that would be much more urgent! In this video I explain why building a next larger particle collider will most likely not tell us anything about dark matter and why, therefore, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":449,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,45,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-finance","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116045","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\/449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}