{"id":88970,"date":"2019-03-27T10:24:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T17:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/higgs-boson-in-plain-english-and-why-its-so-important"},"modified":"2019-03-27T10:24:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T17:24:21","slug":"higgs-boson-in-plain-english-and-why-its-so-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/higgs-boson-in-plain-english-and-why-its-so-important","title":{"rendered":"Higgs Boson in Plain English, and Why it\u2019s So Important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/higgs-boson-in-plain-english-and-why-its-so-important2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at CERN have today announced that they\u2019re 99.99% sure that they\u2019ve found a new sub-atomic particle, and that it is likely to be the elusive Higgs boson \u2013 often referred to as the \u201cGod Particle\u201d. That\u2019s all well and good, but what does it all mean? Let\u2019s break it down\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/shareables\/2012\/07\/04\/so-what-is-the-higgs-boson-and-why-is-it-important-anyway\/\">https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/shareables\/2012\/07\/04\/so-what-is-the-...nt-anyway\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at CERN have today announced that they\u2019re 99.99% sure that they\u2019ve found a new sub-atomic particle, and that it is likely to be the elusive Higgs boson \u2013 often referred to as the \u201cGod Particle\u201d. That\u2019s all well and good, but what does it all mean? Let\u2019s break it down\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88970","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}