{"id":81747,"date":"2018-08-15T11:43:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T18:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/this-one-particle-could-solve-five-mega-mysteries-of-physics"},"modified":"2018-08-15T11:43:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T18:43:28","slug":"this-one-particle-could-solve-five-mega-mysteries-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/this-one-particle-could-solve-five-mega-mysteries-of-physics","title":{"rendered":"This one particle could solve five mega-mysteries of physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-one-particle-could-solve-five-mega-mysteries-of-physics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forget the Higgs: theorists have uncovered a missing link that explains dark matter, what happened in the big bang and more. Now they\u2019re racing to find it.<\/p>\n<p>By Michael Brooks<\/p>\n<p>911? It\u2019s an emergency. The most important particle in the universe is missing. Florian Goertz knows this isn\u2019t a case for the police, but he is still waiting impatiently for a response. This 911 isn\u2019t a phone number, but a building on the northern edge of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22530110-500-its-the-faster-stronger-better-large-hadron-collider\/\">world\u2019s biggest particle accelerator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23931910-200-this-one-particle-could-solve-five-mega-mysteries-of-physics\/?campaign_id=RSS|NSNS-\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23931910&#45;200-this...=RSS|NSNS-<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget the Higgs: theorists have uncovered a missing link that explains dark matter, what happened in the big bang and more. Now they\u2019re racing to find it. By Michael Brooks 911? It\u2019s an emergency. The most important particle in the universe is missing. Florian Goertz knows this isn\u2019t a case for the police, but he [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81747","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\/81747","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}