{"id":6044,"date":"2012-02-23T10:28:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T10:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/23\/looking-for-the-bacon-boson\/"},"modified":"2012-02-23T10:28:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T10:28:31","slug":"looking-for-the-bacon-boson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/23\/looking-for-the-bacon-boson\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for the Bacon Boson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m grading exam papers at the dining room table when Emmy trots in. &#8220;Hey, dude,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Where do we keep the superconducting wire?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not really paying attention, so I start to answer before I understand the question. &#8220;Hmm? Wire is in the basement, next to the&#8211;wait, what?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The superconducting wire. Where do we keep it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t have any superconducting wire. And you&#8217;re a dog. What do you need superconducting wire for, anyway?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m building a particle collider! I need superconducting wire for the beam-steering magnets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tCdd8UAl5VI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/relativity_info.html\"><cite>How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a> goes on sale next Tuesday, wherever you buy books. The above video is a dramatic reading of the dog dialogue that opens Chapter 8: Looking for the Bacon Boson; <i>E = mc<\/i><sup>2<\/sup> and Particle Physics. If you enjoy that, there are 11 more such conversations in the book, along with longer, more detailed explanations of the relevant physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m grading exam papers at the dining room table when Emmy trots in. &#8220;Hey, dude,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Where do we keep the superconducting wire?&#8221; I&#8217;m not really paying attention, so I start to answer before I understand the question. &#8220;Hmm? Wire is in the basement, next to the&#8211;wait, what?&#8221; &#8220;The superconducting wire. Where do we&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/23\/looking-for-the-bacon-boson\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Looking for the Bacon Boson<\/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":[67,18,142,7,51,61,37,132,141,11,52,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-books","category-how-to-teach","category-physics","category-physics_books","category-physics_with_emmy","category-pop_culture","category-publicity","category-relativity","category-science","category-science_books","category-video","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044","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=6044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}