{"id":195636,"date":"2024-09-03T22:56:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T03:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/physics-beyond-the-imaginable"},"modified":"2024-09-03T22:56:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T03:56:50","slug":"physics-beyond-the-imaginable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/physics-beyond-the-imaginable","title":{"rendered":"Physics beyond the imaginable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physics-beyond-the-imaginable2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As an undergraduate he was drawn to theory, but he quickly switched to experiment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheory was good, but I was driven to experimental particle physics because even if I write a theory, someone has to test it anyway,\u201d says Gandrakota, who is now a postdoc at the US Department of Energy\u2019s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. \u201cI\u2019d rather be the person who tests and finds stuff than the person who predicts it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he never lost his soft spot for theoretical physics. Today, Gandrakota and his colleagues on the CMS experiment are developing a machine-learning tool that will allow theorists even more freedom and creativity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an undergraduate he was drawn to theory, but he quickly switched to experiment. \u201cTheory was good, but I was driven to experimental particle physics because even if I write a theory, someone has to test it anyway,\u201d says Gandrakota, who is now a postdoc at the US Department of Energy\u2019s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195636","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=195636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}