{"id":14865,"date":"2014-04-16T03:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=14865"},"modified":"2014-04-16T03:00:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T08:00:36","slug":"theres-more-to-physics-than-the-lhc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14865","title":{"rendered":"There&#039;s More to Physics Than The LHC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/philipball.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/04\/particle-fever-is-aptly-named.html\">Particle Fever is aptly named<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]his equating of \u201cphysics\u201d with \u201cparticle physics\u201d not only plays along with the media myth that the only thing worth noting in physics is what is going on at CERN, but also explains outbursts like this one I received from a (non-particle) physicist recently: \u201cPerhaps the poster child for overselling science should be high-energy physics. They oversold the most expensive toys that physicists have ever produced: high-energy particle accelerators\u2026 their arrogance when they talk about \u2018the god particle\u2019 and \u2018the most important problems\u2019 is disappointing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Particle Fever is aptly named [T]his equating of \u201cphysics\u201d with \u201cparticle physics\u201d not only plays along with the media myth that the only thing worth noting in physics is what is going on at CERN, but also explains outbursts like &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14865\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865","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=14865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}