{"id":128912,"date":"2021-10-12T22:23:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T05:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/epic-particle-collider-experiment-in-us-could-reveal-how-matter-holds-itself-together"},"modified":"2021-10-12T22:23:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T05:23:48","slug":"epic-particle-collider-experiment-in-us-could-reveal-how-matter-holds-itself-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/epic-particle-collider-experiment-in-us-could-reveal-how-matter-holds-itself-together","title":{"rendered":"Epic Particle Collider Experiment in US Could Reveal How Matter Holds Itself Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/epic-particle-collider-experiment-in-us-could-reveal-how-matter-holds-itself-together3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the Nobel Prize-winning US physicist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/physics\/1961\/hofstadter\/biographical\/\">Robert Hofstadter<\/a> and his team fired highly energetic electrons at a small vial of hydrogen at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slac.stanford.edu\/gen\/grad\/GradHandbook\/slac.html\">Stanford Linear Accelerator Center<\/a> in 1,956 they opened the door to a new era of physics.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, it was thought that protons and neutrons, which make up an atom\u2019s nucleus, were the most fundamental particles in nature.<\/p>\n<p>They were considered to be \u2018dots\u2019 in space, lacking physical dimensions. Now it suddenly became clear that these particles were not fundamental at all, and had a size and complex internal structure as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Nobel Prize-winning US physicist Robert Hofstadter and his team fired highly energetic electrons at a small vial of hydrogen at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in 1,956 they opened the door to a new era of physics. Until then, it was thought that protons and neutrons, which make up an atom\u2019s nucleus, were [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128912","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=128912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}