{"id":89114,"date":"2019-04-01T08:24:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T15:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/physicists-just-detected-a-very-odd-particle-that-isnt-a-particle-at-all"},"modified":"2019-04-01T08:24:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T15:24:10","slug":"physicists-just-detected-a-very-odd-particle-that-isnt-a-particle-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/physicists-just-detected-a-very-odd-particle-that-isnt-a-particle-at-all","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Just Detected a Very Odd Particle That Isn\u2019t a Particle at All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-just-detected-a-very-odd-particle-that-isnt-a-particle-at-all2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It sounds like the start of a very bad physics riddle: I\u2019m a particle that really isn\u2019t; I vanish before I can even be detected, yet can be seen. I break your understanding of physics but don\u2019t overhaul your knowledge. Who am I?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an odderon, a particle that\u2019s even more odd than its name suggests, and it may have recently been detected at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/64623-large-hadron-collider.html\">the Large Hadron Collider<\/a>, the most powerful atom smasher, where particles are zipped at near light speed around a 17-mile-long (27 kilometers) ring near Geneva in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/65119-odderons-quasiparticles-detected.html\">https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/65119-odderons-quasiparticles-detected.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds like the start of a very bad physics riddle: I\u2019m a particle that really isn\u2019t; I vanish before I can even be detected, yet can be seen. I break your understanding of physics but don\u2019t overhaul your knowledge. Who am I? It\u2019s an odderon, a particle that\u2019s even more odd than its name [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89114","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=89114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}