{"id":11013,"date":"2013-02-15T15:18:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T23:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=11013"},"modified":"2013-02-15T15:18:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T23:18:15","slug":"higgs-boson-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/15\/higgs-boson-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Higgs Boson Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost enough to make me believe in a benevolent force guiding the universe: Nick Cave, on his new album <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Push_the_Sky_Away\">Push the Sky Away<\/a>, has a song called &#8220;Higgs Boson Blues.&#8221; (Hat tip to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iansample\/status\/302553959200092160\">Ian Sample<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_XQud7EFQ3zQ\"><div id=\"lyte_XQud7EFQ3zQ\" data-src=\"\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/XQud7EFQ3zQ\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/XQud7EFQ3zQ\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/XQud7EFQ3zQ\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Okay, don&#8217;t expect to hear a lot about spontaneous gauge symmetry breaking or giving mass to chiral fermions. But still:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Have you ever heard about the Higgs Boson blues<br \/>\nI&#8217;m goin&#8217; down to Geneva baby, gonna teach it to you\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Push_the_Sky_Away\">Apparently<\/a> Cave&#8217;s lyrics throughout the album came about from &#8220;Googling curiosities, being entranced by exotic Wikipedia entries &#8216;whether they\u2019re true or not&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost enough to make me believe in a benevolent force guiding the universe: Nick Cave, on his new album Push the Sky Away, has a song called &#8220;Higgs Boson Blues.&#8221; (Hat tip to Ian Sample.) Okay, don&#8217;t expect to hear a lot about spontaneous gauge symmetry breaking or giving mass to chiral fermions. But still: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,22,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higgs","category-music","category-science-and-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11013","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=11013"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11016,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11013\/revisions\/11016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}