{"id":97805,"date":"2019-10-25T00:42:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/the-scientists-who-look-for-nothing-to-understand-everything"},"modified":"2019-10-25T00:42:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:42:44","slug":"the-scientists-who-look-for-nothing-to-understand-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/the-scientists-who-look-for-nothing-to-understand-everything","title":{"rendered":"The Scientists Who Look for Nothing to Understand Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-scientists-who-look-for-nothing-to-understand-everything3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicist Usama Hussain laughed uncomfortably every time the conversation even got close to the question, \u201cDo you look for nothing?\u201d His professors would kill him if they heard him agree with that. After all, he\u2019s technically looking for a brand new particle that may or may not exist, with the hopes that it might help explain some of the Universe\u2019s weirdness.<\/p>\n<p>But hunting for a new particle (even the famous Higgs Boson) is a search for something by finding all of the nothing. It requires confirming all of the places it <em>can\u2019t<\/em> be, and understanding all the properties it <em>doesn\u2019t <\/em>have, so what\u2019s left is the discovery. It\u2019s like carving a sculpture from marble. You spend all your effort removing the nothing, and maybe you\u2019ll end up with something. Or maybe not. <strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicist Usama Hussain laughed uncomfortably every time the conversation even got close to the question, \u201cDo you look for nothing?\u201d His professors would kill him if they heard him agree with that. After all, he\u2019s technically looking for a brand new particle that may or may not exist, with the hopes that it might help [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97805","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}