{"id":206671,"date":"2025-02-18T09:14:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/weighing-in-on-the-w-boson-measurement-conundrum"},"modified":"2025-02-18T09:14:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:14:56","slug":"weighing-in-on-the-w-boson-measurement-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/weighing-in-on-the-w-boson-measurement-conundrum","title":{"rendered":"Weighing in on the W boson measurement conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/weighing-in-on-the-w-boson-measurement-conundrum.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the tiniest building blocks of the universe has a weigh-in problem, and Ashutosh Kotwal is determined to get to the bottom of it.<\/p>\n<p>For nearly 30 years, the Duke physicist has led a worldwide effort to home in on the mass of a fundamental particle called the W boson.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the force-carrying particle that allows the sun to burn and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/new+elements\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">new elements<\/a> to form, so it\u2019s pretty important. Without it, the entire universe would be in the dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the tiniest building blocks of the universe has a weigh-in problem, and Ashutosh Kotwal is determined to get to the bottom of it. For nearly 30 years, the Duke physicist has led a worldwide effort to home in on the mass of a fundamental particle called the W boson. It\u2019s the force-carrying particle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206671","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}