{"id":12814,"date":"2012-12-06T03:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12814"},"modified":"2012-12-06T03:00:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T08:00:45","slug":"dont-flatter-yourself-otter-it-wasnt-that-great-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12814","title":{"rendered":"Don&#039;t Flatter Yourself, Otter.  It Wasn&#039;t That Great."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/12\/physicists-bummed-that-physics-is-pretty-much-what-they-expected\/265858\/\">Physicists Bummed That Physics Is Pretty Much What They Expected<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Great title (no, it&#8217;s not The Onion), but not much more than a lead into another story:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/guest-blog\/2012\/12\/03\/down-in-the-mouth-in-paradise\/\">At CERN: Down in the Mouth in Paradise<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chalk up another success for the Standard Model.  How \u2026 ummm \u2026 exciting?!   Sure, if you\u2019re over 60 and fondly recall the glory days of the 1960s and early \u201870s when the Standard Model became, well the Standard Model.    Or if you\u2019re an experimentalist who has dedicated the last 10-30 years to designing, building and operating the extraordinary Large Hadron Collider and Tevatron accelerators (where the discovery was made and confirmed respectively), or their monumental detectors \u2014 ATLAS and CMS, CDF and D0.   Celebrate away. Drink champagne, toast your successes, wonder over Nobel and lesser (but more broadly shared) prizes.  You\u2019ve earned it.  But what about the rest of us?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists Bummed That Physics Is Pretty Much What They Expected Great title (no, it&#8217;s not The Onion), but not much more than a lead into another story: At CERN: Down in the Mouth in Paradise Chalk up another success for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12814\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}