{"id":230813,"date":"2026-02-07T13:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/storied-atom-smasher-that-makes-tiny-big-bangs-wraps-up-mission"},"modified":"2026-02-07T13:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:12:21","slug":"storied-atom-smasher-that-makes-tiny-big-bangs-wraps-up-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/storied-atom-smasher-that-makes-tiny-big-bangs-wraps-up-mission","title":{"rendered":"Storied atom-smasher that makes tiny Big Bangs wraps up mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/storied-atom-smasher-that-makes-tiny-big-bangs-wraps-up-mission2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For 26 years, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has re-created the quark-gluon plasma that filled the infant universe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 26 years, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has re-created the quark-gluon plasma that filled the infant universe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230813","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=230813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}