{"id":1413,"date":"2007-05-15T07:11:45","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T07:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/15\/tired-of-the-lhc\/"},"modified":"2007-05-15T07:11:45","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T07:11:45","slug":"tired-of-the-lhc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/15\/tired-of-the-lhc\/","title":{"rendered":"Tired of the LHC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a big long <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/15\/science\/15cern.html?ei=5088&#038;en=7c25f6782d7029e7&#038;ex=1336881600&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=all\">Dennis Overbye article<\/a> about the Large Hadron Collider in the <cite>Times<\/cite> today. The paginated version runs to seven or eight pages on the web, and Overbye is a good writer, so you can be fairly sure it&#8217;s exhaustive and detailed and interesting.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say that authoritatively, though, because I got about five paragraphs in, and gave up. I&#8217;m officially sick of rapturous articles about the LHC, which isn&#8217;t going to turn on for several months yet, assuming everything goes smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, yeah, it&#8217;ll address the most fundamental questions in physics, it&#8217;ll provide an unprecedented opportunity to understand the Big Bang, it&#8217;s the best hope for resolving outstanding issues about particle physics. Blah, blah, blah. It&#8217;s also <strong>not running yet<\/strong>. Wake me when there&#8217;s data.<\/p>\n<p>There are a whole host of fascinating physics experiments going on right now that are actually, you know, <strong>going on right now<\/strong>. Such as, to pull a few things from the huge backlog of saved posts in my RSS feeds, <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsweb.org\/articles\/news\/11\/5\/1\/1?rss=2.0\">this<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsweb.org\/articles\/news\/11\/5\/11\/1?rss=2.0\">this<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2007-05\/dnl-lor050107.php\">this<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2007-05\/nsf-tlc051007.php\">this<\/a>. Or, for example, there&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/nanoscale.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/sces-07-day-1.html\">entire conference Doug Natelson is at<\/a>. Write about those for a change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a big long Dennis Overbye article about the Large Hadron Collider in the Times today. The paginated version runs to seven or eight pages on the web, and Overbye is a good writer, so you can be fairly sure it&#8217;s exhaustive and detailed and interesting. I can&#8217;t say that authoritatively, though, because I got&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/15\/tired-of-the-lhc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tired of the LHC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","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=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}