{"id":4841,"date":"2010-07-12T14:22:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/12\/dorky-poll-accelerator-slap-fi\/"},"modified":"2010-07-12T14:22:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T14:22:23","slug":"dorky-poll-accelerator-slap-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/12\/dorky-poll-accelerator-slap-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorky Poll: Accelerator Slap-Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rumors that the Tevatron at Fermilab may have discovered the Higgs boson have escaped blogdom to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/large-hadron-collider\/7885997\/Large-Hadron-Collider-rival-Tevatron-has-found-Higgs-boson.html\">mainstream media<\/a>. This originates in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.science20.com\/quantum_diaries_survivor\/rumors_about_light_higgs\">blog post by Tommaso Dorigo<\/a>, which I can&#8217;t read because it doesn&#8217;t display properly in Firefox, but I&#8217;m sure is very interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is a good excuse for a dorky poll:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/3462020.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/3462020\/\">If the Tevatron were to discover the Higgs boson before the LHC does, that would be:<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/features-surveys\/\">Market Research<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a 99.7% probability that this poll is completely meaningless. That doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s not entertaining, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumors that the Tevatron at Fermilab may have discovered the Higgs boson have escaped blogdom to the mainstream media. This originates in a blog post by Tommaso Dorigo, which I can&#8217;t read because it doesn&#8217;t display properly in Firefox, but I&#8217;m sure is very interesting. Anyway, this is a good excuse for a dorky poll:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/12\/dorky-poll-accelerator-slap-fi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dorky Poll: Accelerator Slap-Fight<\/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":[19,33,7,137,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiment","category-in_the_news","category-physics","category-polls","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841","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=4841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}