{"id":70349,"date":"2017-06-12T03:42:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T10:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/faux-particles-commit-physics-faux-pas"},"modified":"2017-06-12T03:42:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T10:42:31","slug":"faux-particles-commit-physics-faux-pas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/faux-particles-commit-physics-faux-pas","title":{"rendered":"Faux particles commit physics faux pas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/faux-particles-commit-physics-faux-pas.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor example, Hasan says, \u201cwe can test theoretical ideas in the early universe,\u201d simulating how particles may have behaved just after the Big Bang, when Lorentz symmetry may not have been obeyed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s interesting how often I hear condensed matter physicists justify their work by saying \u201cmight be important for something with quantum gravity\u201d while condensed matter physics by itself is much more likely than quantum gravity to be good for something.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/faux-particles-commit-physics-faux-pas\">https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/faux-particles-commit-physics-faux-pas<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor example, Hasan says, \u201cwe can test theoretical ideas in the early universe,\u201d simulating how particles may have behaved just after the Big Bang, when Lorentz symmetry may not have been obeyed.\u201d It\u2019s interesting how often I hear condensed matter physicists justify their work by saying \u201cmight be important for something with quantum gravity\u201d while [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70349","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}