{"id":8658,"date":"2012-07-12T10:04:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T17:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=8658"},"modified":"2012-07-12T10:04:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T17:04:03","slug":"chatting-higgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/12\/chatting-higgs\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatting Higgs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from Vegas, where I&#8217;m here for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazingmeeting.com\/TAM2012\/\">The Amaz!ng Meeting<\/a>, at which I&#8217;ll be talking Saturday. But I&#8217;ll also be talking today using one of these fancy electronic information-processing gizmos that are all the rage among the young folk these days.  That is, we&#8217;re having a video chat, sponsored by the Huffington Post, to talk about the Higgs boson excitement and also something about what it means for science communication across the expert\/public divide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> oops!  It&#8217;s actually not streaming live.  Sorry about that.  Will be posted later.<\/p>\n<p><strike>We start at 2pm Eastern\/11am Pacific.<\/strike> I think you will be able to find the chat by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/live321\/\">clicking here<\/a>; if not I&#8217;ll try to update.  Other participants will be <strike>HuffPo science blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/cara-santa-maria\/\">Cara Santa Maria<\/a><\/strike> (oops just found out Cara can&#8217;t make it), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/minutephysics\">Henry Reich<\/a> of the increasingly famous MinutePhysics videos, science comedian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencecomedian.com\/\">Brian Mallow<\/a>, high school science teacher <a href=\"http:\/\/lorrenhotaling.com\/Site\/Welcome.html\">Lorren Hotaling<\/a>, and the whole thing will be moderated by HuffPo&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshzepps.com\/\">Josh Zepps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To tide you over, here are Henry&#8217;s latest videos about our favorite scalar boson. Part One:<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"The Higgs Boson, Part I\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_9Uh5mTxRQcg\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/9Uh5mTxRQcg\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Uh5mTxRQcg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M4S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2012-07-05T13:00:07Z\" \/><\/div><meta itemprop=\"accessibilityFeature\" content=\"captions\" \/><div id=\"lyte_9Uh5mTxRQcg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/9Uh5mTxRQcg\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">The Higgs Boson, Part I<\/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\/9Uh5mTxRQcg\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/9Uh5mTxRQcg\/0.jpg\" alt=\"The Higgs Boson, Part I\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"The Higgs Boson. What more need be said? Two more Higgs videos coming soon. Also, explore a map of the big bang! http:\/\/www.bigbangregistry.com Theory of Everything video - http:\/\/bit.ly\/yEj0xG What is Matter video - http:\/\/bit.ly\/ywH3tn minutephysics is now on Google+ - http:\/\/bit.ly\/qzEwc6 And facebook - http:\/\/facebook.com\/minutephysics And twitter - @minutephysics Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in a minute! Music by Nathaniel Schroeder Spanish subtitles translated by Marcos P\u00e9rez S\u00e1nchez Thanks to Nima Doroud, John Toledo and Damian Pope for contributions and to Perimeter Institute for support. http:\/\/www.perimeterinstitute.ca Created by Henry Reich\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>And Part II:<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"The Higgs Boson, Part II: What is Mass?\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_ASRpIym_jFM\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/ASRpIym_jFM\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ASRpIym_jFM\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2M50S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2012-07-11T13:00:16Z\" \/><\/div><meta itemprop=\"accessibilityFeature\" content=\"captions\" \/><div id=\"lyte_ASRpIym_jFM\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/ASRpIym_jFM\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">The Higgs Boson, Part II: What is Mass?<\/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\/ASRpIym_jFM\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/ASRpIym_jFM\/0.jpg\" alt=\"The Higgs Boson, Part II: What is Mass?\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"What is mass and what does it have to do with the Higgs Boson? Part I: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9Uh5mTxRQcg Also, explore a map of the big bang! http:\/\/www.bigbangregistry.com MinutePhysics is on Google+ - http:\/\/bit.ly\/qzEwc6 And facebook - http:\/\/facebook.com\/minutephysics And twitter - @minutephysics Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in a minute! Music by Nathaniel Schroeder Thanks to Nima Doroud for contributions and to Perimeter Institute for support. http:\/\/www.perimeterinstitute.ca Created by Henry Reich\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from Vegas, where I&#8217;m here for The Amaz!ng Meeting, at which I&#8217;ll be talking Saturday. But I&#8217;ll also be talking today using one of these fancy electronic information-processing gizmos that are all the rage among the young folk these days. That is, we&#8217;re having a video chat, sponsored by the Huffington Post, to talk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higgs","category-science-and-society","category-science-and-the-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658","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=8658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}