{"id":159231,"date":"2023-02-28T17:22:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T23:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/we-just-got-the-most-precise-measurement-of-a-property-of-a-particle-ever"},"modified":"2023-02-28T17:22:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T23:22:39","slug":"we-just-got-the-most-precise-measurement-of-a-property-of-a-particle-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/we-just-got-the-most-precise-measurement-of-a-property-of-a-particle-ever","title":{"rendered":"We Just Got The Most Precise Measurement of a Property of a Particle, Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-just-got-the-most-precise-measurement-of-a-property-of-a-particle-ever2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-standard-model\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Standard Model<\/a> of particle physics is our current best-guess on what the blue-prints for matter looks like. Of all of its predictions, none are as precise as the magnetic moment of the electron.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is it precisely predicted, it\u2019s among the <a href=\"https:\/\/cfp.physics.northwestern.edu\/gabrielse-group\/electron-magnetic-moment.html\">most accurately measured<\/a> of any particle\u2019s properties. And while these two values are close, they don\u2019t overlap entirely, providing tantalizing hints of new physics.<\/p>\n<p>Getting closer to the exact value of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electron_magnetic_moment\">electron magnetic moment<\/a> \u2013 simply put, how strongly an electron behaves like a tiny magnet \u2013 might one day unlock a greater understanding of the building blocks of physics and how they interact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Standard Model of particle physics is our current best-guess on what the blue-prints for matter looks like. Of all of its predictions, none are as precise as the magnetic moment of the electron. Not only is it precisely predicted, it\u2019s among the most accurately measured of any particle\u2019s properties. And while these two values [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159231","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}