{"id":141666,"date":"2022-07-04T13:02:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T18:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/cern-gears-up-for-more-discoveries-10-years-after-god-particle-find"},"modified":"2022-07-04T13:02:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T18:02:45","slug":"cern-gears-up-for-more-discoveries-10-years-after-god-particle-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/cern-gears-up-for-more-discoveries-10-years-after-god-particle-find","title":{"rendered":"Cern gears up for more discoveries 10 years after \u2018God particle\u2019 find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cern-gears-up-for-more-discoveries-10-years-after-god-particle-find2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/press.web.cern.ch\/public\/en\/LHC\/LHC-en.html\" title>Large Hadron Collider<\/a> (LHC) \u2013 the monster proton smasher at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/gallery\/2008\/sep\/10\/cern.particlephysics\" title>European particle laboratory, Cern<\/a> \u2013 gears up to start <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2022\/apr\/21\/large-hadron-collider-restart-fifth-force-nature\">its third period of data collection<\/a> on Tuesday, experts are hoping to unpick further secrets of the fundamental building blocks of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Bortoletto, now head of particle physics at the University of Oxford and part of the team that discovered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/higgs-boson\">Higgs boson<\/a>, said her main memory of the events a decade ago was the moment two weeks before the announcement when the researchers unblinded their analysis of the data and saw unambiguous signs of the boson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still, thinking [about] that moment, get the butterflies in my stomach,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was unbelievable. It\u2019s really a unique moment in the life of the scientist.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) \u2013 the monster proton smasher at the European particle laboratory, Cern \u2013 gears up to start its third period of data collection on Tuesday, experts are hoping to unpick further secrets of the fundamental building blocks of the universe. Bortoletto, now head of particle physics at the University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141666","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}