{"id":137205,"date":"2022-03-21T21:29:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T04:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/this-tiny-particle-accelerator-fits-into-a-large-room-making-it-much-more-practical-than-the-one-from-cern"},"modified":"2022-03-21T21:29:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T04:29:27","slug":"this-tiny-particle-accelerator-fits-into-a-large-room-making-it-much-more-practical-than-the-one-from-cern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/this-tiny-particle-accelerator-fits-into-a-large-room-making-it-much-more-practical-than-the-one-from-cern","title":{"rendered":"This tiny particle accelerator fits into a large room, making it much more practical than the one from CERN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-tiny-particle-accelerator-fits-into-a-large-room-making-it-much-more-practical-than-the-one-from-cern.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As scientists prepared in 2010 to collapse the first particles in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), media representatives imagined that the EU-wide experiment could create a black hole that could swallow and destroy our planet. How on earth, columnists rage, could scientists justify such a dangerous indulgence for the pursuit of abstract, theoretical knowledge?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As scientists prepared in 2010 to collapse the first particles in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), media representatives imagined that the EU-wide experiment could create a black hole that could swallow and destroy our planet. How on earth, columnists rage, could scientists justify such a dangerous indulgence for the pursuit of abstract, theoretical knowledge?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":658,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137205","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\/137205","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\/658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}