{"id":158916,"date":"2023-02-24T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/unusual-atom-helps-in-search-for-universes-building-blocks"},"modified":"2023-02-24T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T01:23:00","slug":"unusual-atom-helps-in-search-for-universes-building-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/unusual-atom-helps-in-search-for-universes-building-blocks","title":{"rendered":"Unusual atom helps in search for universe\u2019s building blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unusual-atom-helps-in-search-for-universes-building-blocks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An unusual form of cesium atom is helping a University of Queensland-led research team unmask unknown particles that make up the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jacinda Ginges, from UQ\u2019s School of Mathematics and Physics, said the unusual atom\u2014made up of an ordinary cesium atom and an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/elementary+particle\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">elementary particle<\/a> called a muon\u2014may prove essential in better understanding the universe\u2019s fundamental building blocks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur universe is still such a mystery to us,\u201d Dr. Ginges said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unusual form of cesium atom is helping a University of Queensland-led research team unmask unknown particles that make up the universe. Dr. Jacinda Ginges, from UQ\u2019s School of Mathematics and Physics, said the unusual atom\u2014made up of an ordinary cesium atom and an elementary particle called a muon\u2014may prove essential in better understanding the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158916","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}