{"id":10000,"date":"2015-04-07T12:03:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T16:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10000"},"modified":"2015-04-07T12:03:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T16:03:30","slug":"colliders-observatories-and-precision-measurements-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/04\/07\/colliders-observatories-and-precision-measurements-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Colliders, Observatories, and Precision Measurements, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The editor at Forbes suggested I should write something about the re-start of the Large Hadron Collider<\/a>, so I did. But being me, I couldn’t just do an “LHC, yay!” post, but talk about it in a larger context, as one of three major approaches to filling the gaps in the Standard Model<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nThe big physics story over the weekend was the re-start of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the world\u2019s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It was initially started in 2008, but some key circuits failed shortly after it was switched on. A relatively quick patch job allowed it to operate at half its designed energy for a few years, long enough to discover the Higgs boson and secure a Nobel Prize for two of the half-dozen theorists with a claim to have invented it, then it shut down for two years of more comprehensive repairs. It\u2019s back now, and better than ever, hopefully able to begin colliding protons at its original specs within the next several months.<\/p>\n

But you might be asking \u201cWhy is this a big deal, anyway?\u201d Well, it\u2019s a big deal because our very best theory of fundamental physics is wrong, and everybody knows it. We just don\u2019t know how it\u2019s wrong.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, you know, if that sounds appealing, go over there and check it out…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The editor at Forbes suggested I should write something about the re-start of the Large Hadron Collider, so I did. But being me, I couldn’t just do an “LHC, yay!” post, but talk about it in a larger context, as one of three major approaches to filling the gaps in the Standard Model: The big… Continue reading Colliders, Observatories, and Precision Measurements, Oh My!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,33,7,565,11,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiment","category-in_the_news","category-physics","category-precision_measurement","category-science","category-theory","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}