{"id":2980,"date":"2009-06-25T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2009-06-25T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T08:00:00","slug":"billy-mays-wants-you-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2980","title":{"rendered":"Billy Mays Wants You to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/focus.aps.org\/story\/v23\/st21\">A Higgs Boson without the Mess<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sounds like a late-nite ad.  <em>It&#8217;s Higgsy Clean!<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A proton is always surrounded by a swarm of ghostly virtual photons and gluons associated with the fields of the electromagnetic and strong nuclear forces. Researchers have predicted that when two protons (or a proton and an antiproton) fly past one another at close range, within about a proton&#8217;s diameter, these virtual particle clouds may occasionally interact to create new, real (not virtual) particles. The original protons would merely lose some momentum and separate from the beam. Such an &#8220;exclusive&#8221; reaction&#8211;where the original particles don&#8217;t break apart&#8211;gives unusually clean data because there are so few particles to detect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Higgs Boson without the Mess Sounds like a late-nite ad. It&#8217;s Higgsy Clean! A proton is always surrounded by a swarm of ghostly virtual photons and gluons associated with the fields of the electromagnetic and strong nuclear forces. Researchers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2980\">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-2980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980","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=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}