{"id":193328,"date":"2024-07-23T02:23:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T07:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/the-higgs-boson-might-not-be-the-portal-to-new-physics-after-all"},"modified":"2024-07-23T02:23:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T07:23:39","slug":"the-higgs-boson-might-not-be-the-portal-to-new-physics-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/the-higgs-boson-might-not-be-the-portal-to-new-physics-after-all","title":{"rendered":"The Higgs Boson Might Not Be The Portal to New Physics After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-higgs-boson-might-not-be-the-portal-to-new-physics-after-all3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They called it the God particle \u2013 a particle so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/higgs-boson-god-particle-explained\">\u2019goddamn\u2019 elusive<\/a>, it took nearly 40 years and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/alexknapp\/2012\/07\/05\/how-much-does-it-cost-to-find-a-higgs-boson\/#1891ccaa3948\">$4.75 billion machine<\/a> to detect, all in the hopes of closing one chapter in physics and opening a new one.<\/p>\n<p>Yet for all its promise, it\u2019s possible the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-is-the-higgs-field\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Higgs boson<\/a> might not be the window to a new age of science.<\/p>\n<p>On including previously neglected corrections to data-driven models of the Higgs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-standard-model\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">boson<\/a>\u2019s creation, physicists from the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Max-Planck Institute for Physics, and the RWTH Aachen University in Germany have failed to find evidence of \u2018hidden\u2019 laws lurking in the particle\u2019s shadow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They called it the God particle \u2013 a particle so \u2019goddamn\u2019 elusive, it took nearly 40 years and a $4.75 billion machine to detect, all in the hopes of closing one chapter in physics and opening a new one. Yet for all its promise, it\u2019s possible the Higgs boson might not be the window to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193328","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}