{"id":1035,"date":"2006-11-23T13:25:27","date_gmt":"2006-11-23T18:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/11\/23\/thanksgiving\/"},"modified":"2006-11-23T13:25:27","modified_gmt":"2006-11-23T18:25:27","slug":"thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/23\/thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we give thanks for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lagrangian\">Lagrangian<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Standard_model\">Standard Model of Particle Physics<\/a>, after <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electroweak_force\">electroweak<\/a> symmetry breaking, with no explicit <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Higgs_boson\">Higgs boson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/uploads\/smshort.pdf\"><img class='center' width='580' src='http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/uploads\/smshort.gif' alt='SM Lagrangian w\/o Higgs' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s served us well for three decades, withstanding every challenge that particle accelerators could think to throw at it.  But it&#8217;s going to be <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/06\/20\/the-lhc-dashboard\/\">blown out of the water<\/a> in a couple of years.  Still, a pretty good run.  Thanks, Standard Model Lagrangian!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we give thanks for the Lagrangian of the Standard Model of Particle Physics, after electroweak symmetry breaking, with no explicit Higgs boson. It&#8217;s served us well for three decades, withstanding every challenge that particle accelerators could think to throw at it. But it&#8217;s going to be blown out of the water in a couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}