{"id":149704,"date":"2022-11-08T15:23:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T21:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/is-the-higgs-boson-the-first-step-to-a-star-trek-transporter"},"modified":"2022-11-08T15:23:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T21:23:32","slug":"is-the-higgs-boson-the-first-step-to-a-star-trek-transporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/is-the-higgs-boson-the-first-step-to-a-star-trek-transporter","title":{"rendered":"Is the Higgs boson the first step to a \u2018Star Trek\u2019 transporter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-the-higgs-boson-the-first-step-to-a-star-trek-transporter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> circa 2012.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A century after Albert Einstein came up with his theories of relativity, a constellation of Global Positioning System satellites is orbiting Earth, making practical use of his ground-breaking understanding of time.<\/p>\n<p>If the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/space\/higgs-boson-kinda-sorta-discovered-120704.html\">discovery of the Higgs boson particle pans out<\/a>, will even more mind-bending technologies result?<\/p>\n<p>Theoretically, it\u2019s possible, says Arizona State University physicist Lawrence Krauss; but practically, it\u2019s unlikely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>face_with_colon_three circa 2012. A century after Albert Einstein came up with his theories of relativity, a constellation of Global Positioning System satellites is orbiting Earth, making practical use of his ground-breaking understanding of time. If the discovery of the Higgs boson particle pans out, will even more mind-bending technologies result? Theoretically, it\u2019s possible, says Arizona [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149704","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=149704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}