{"id":5942,"date":"2011-12-13T19:33:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T19:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/12\/13\/mandatory-higgs-boson-post\/"},"modified":"2011-12-13T19:33:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T19:33:29","slug":"mandatory-higgs-boson-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/12\/13\/mandatory-higgs-boson-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory Higgs Boson Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was planning to let today&#8217;s Higgs press conference pass with only a few oblique mentions in posts about other things, but apparently, I would lose my license to blog about physics if I did that. You&#8217;d think that, being married to a lawyer, and all, I&#8217;d know to read the fine print in these things&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I don&#8217;t really have anything useful to say about it. My very-much-an-outsider reading of this is that the evidence they see is suggestive, but somewhat less impressive than even the many attempts to lower expectations on Twitter and elsewhere suggested. It&#8217;s probably there, but they&#8217;re still at least several months away from being able to say anything conclusive.<\/p>\n<p>If you want more detail, your best bet is to look to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2011\/12\/13\/science-it-marches-on\/\">other<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/startswithabang\/2011\/12\/the_large_hadron_collider_the.php\">bloggers<\/a>, perhaps even those with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.science20.com\/quantum_diaries_survivor\/firm_evidence_higgs_boson_last-85478\">relevant<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/profmattstrassler.com\/2011\/12\/13\/higgs-update-today\/\">expertise<\/a>. I&#8217;m kind of burned out on the whole subject, at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was planning to let today&#8217;s Higgs press conference pass with only a few oblique mentions in posts about other things, but apparently, I would lose my license to blog about physics if I did that. You&#8217;d think that, being married to a lawyer, and all, I&#8217;d know to read the fine print in these&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/12\/13\/mandatory-higgs-boson-post\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mandatory Higgs Boson Post<\/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":[19,33,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiment","category-in_the_news","category-physics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5942","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=5942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}