{"id":97774,"date":"2019-10-24T00:22:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T07:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/the-future-of-particle-physics-is-bright-bleak-and-magical"},"modified":"2019-10-24T00:22:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T07:22:34","slug":"the-future-of-particle-physics-is-bright-bleak-and-magical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/the-future-of-particle-physics-is-bright-bleak-and-magical","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Particle Physics Is Bright, Bleak, and Magical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-future-of-particle-physics-is-bright-bleak-and-magical2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider triumphantly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson back in the summer of 2012. Nicknamed \u201cthe God particle,\u201d it was the last new undiscovered<strong> <\/strong>particle predicted by the backbone theory of particle physics.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, physicists have found a whole lot of, well, nothing. The Higgs high hasn\u2019t carried through the past decade, and no groundbreaking discoveries have appeared since 2012. New York Times science reporter Dennis Overbye called this silence<strong> <\/strong>\u201c<a class=\"\" data-ga=\"[[\u201d Embedded Url\u201d,\u201d External link\u201d,\u201d https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/19\/science\/cern-large-hadron-collider-higgs-physics.html\u201d,{\u201cmetric25\u201d:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/19\/science\/cern-large-hadron-collider-higgs-physics.html\">ominous<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But ahead lies a whole frontier of grand unsolved mysteries, including why there\u2019s more matter than antimatter in the universe, what the true identity of dark matter and dark energy is, or how the strange, ultra-weak neutrino particles ended up so ghostly. For many, it\u2019s an exciting time, with lots of new ideas and upcoming experiments to test them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider triumphantly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson back in the summer of 2012. Nicknamed \u201cthe God particle,\u201d it was the last new undiscovered particle predicted by the backbone theory of particle physics. Since then, physicists have found a whole lot of, well, nothing. The Higgs high hasn\u2019t carried [\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-97774","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\/97774","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=97774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}