{"id":149708,"date":"2022-11-08T15:24:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T21:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/meet-the-large-hadron-collider-the-worlds-most-powerful-atom-smasher"},"modified":"2022-11-08T15:24:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T21:24:39","slug":"meet-the-large-hadron-collider-the-worlds-most-powerful-atom-smasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/meet-the-large-hadron-collider-the-worlds-most-powerful-atom-smasher","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Large Hadron Collider, the world\u2019s most powerful atom-smasher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-the-large-hadron-collider-the-worlds-most-powerful-atom-smasher2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Large Hadron Collider is one of the most important scientific instruments in the world \u2014 and also one of the biggest humans have ever built.<\/p>\n<p>The Large Hadron Collider is the world\u2019s most powerful particle accelerator, situated along the border between Switzerland and France, just outside the Swiss city of Geneva. Still, that description doesn\u2019t quite do it justice.<\/p>\n<p>It is also one of the largest scientific instruments ever built; the result of a decade of collaboration between over 100 countries, hundreds of universities and scientific institutes, and more than 10,000 scientists and researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Large Hadron Collider is one of the most important scientific instruments in the world \u2014 and also one of the biggest humans have ever built. The Large Hadron Collider is the world\u2019s most powerful particle accelerator, situated along the border between Switzerland and France, just outside the Swiss city of Geneva. Still, that description [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149708","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}