{"id":763,"date":"2008-05-09T11:53:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T16:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=763"},"modified":"2008-05-09T11:53:20","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T16:53:20","slug":"big-minds-colliding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2008\/05\/09\/big-minds-colliding\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Minds Colliding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/TECH\/05\/09\/physics.nima\/index.html\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/TECH\/05\/09\/physics.nima\/index.html\">Colliding with nature&#8217;s best-kept secrets &#8211; CNN.com<\/a>  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Visiting a particle accelerator is like a religious experience, at least for Nima Arkani-Hamed.<\/p>\n<p>Immense detectors surround the areas where inconceivably small particles slam into one another at super-high energies, collisions that may confirm Arkani-Hamed&#8217;s predictions about undiscovered properties of nature.<\/p>\n<p>Arkani-Hamed is only in his mid-30s, but he has already distinguished himself as one of the leading thinkers in the field of particle physics.<\/p>\n<p>His revolutionary ideas about the way the universe works will finally be put to the test later this year at Switzerland&#8217;s Large Hadron Collider, which, when completed, will be the world&#8217;s most powerful particle accelerator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colliding with nature&#8217;s best-kept secrets &#8211; CNN.com Visiting a particle accelerator is like a religious experience, at least for Nima Arkani-Hamed. Immense detectors surround the areas where inconceivably small particles slam into one another at super-high energies, collisions that may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2008\/05\/09\/big-minds-colliding\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,166,225,389],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-collider","tag-einstein","tag-hadron","tag-particle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-cj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}