{"id":10882,"date":"2012-12-18T09:13:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T17:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=10882"},"modified":"2012-12-18T11:54:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T19:54:57","slug":"the-higgs-boson-and-the-meaning-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/18\/the-higgs-boson-and-the-meaning-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Higgs Boson and the Meaning of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vrs-Azp0i3k\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> the video from a talk I gave at <a href=\"http:\/\/skepticon.org\/\">Skepticon V<\/a> last month. It&#8217;s basically a superposition of a Higgs-boson talk with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/22\/from-particles-to-people-the-laws-of-nature-and-the-meaning-of-life\/\">From Particles to People<\/a> talk. How is such a feat even possible, you may ask? Well, it wasn&#8217;t easy.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/Vrs-Azp0i3k?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, this talk is only 50 minutes long; it&#8217;s not like sitting through 15 hours of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/11\/moving-naturalism-forward-videos-and-recap\/\">Moving Naturalism Forward<\/a> videos.<\/p>\n<p>This is the talk, by the way, from which the little picture of me at the top right corner of the blog was taken. I like it because it appears that I am looking at each new blog post with skeptical bemusement.<\/p>\n<p>Also, at one point I said &#8220;light years&#8221; when I meant &#8220;miles&#8221; (talking about Voyager). They may take my scientist card away for that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the video from a talk I gave at Skepticon V last month. It&#8217;s basically a superposition of a Higgs-boson talk with the From Particles to People talk. How is such a feat even possible, you may ask? Well, it wasn&#8217;t easy. Fortunately, this talk is only 50 minutes long; it&#8217;s not like sitting through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10882","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\/10882","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=10882"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10887,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10882\/revisions\/10887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}