{"id":309,"date":"2012-07-05T13:20:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T13:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lousodrome.net\/blog\/light\/?p=309"},"modified":"2013-01-11T10:27:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T10:27:52","slug":"history-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lousodrome.net\/blog\/light\/2012\/07\/05\/history-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"History explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So yesterday was the announcement of a massive breakthrough: <a href=\"http:\/\/cdsweb.cern.ch\/record\/1459604\">CERN have discovered a new particle thought to be a Higgs boson<\/a>. This is a milestone discovery future generations will have in their textbooks. Maybe it is a good time to remind the excellent animation Jorge Cham <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics\/archive.php?comicid=1489\">published a few months ago<\/a>, explaining in simple words what the Higgs boson is. <em>(it is also a good time to have a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2008\/08\/the_large_hadron_collider.html\">photos taken soon before the launch of the Large Hadron Collider<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/41038445?portrait=0&amp;color=c8b3df\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"656\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So yesterday was the announcement of a massive breakthrough: CERN have discovered a new particle thought to be a Higgs boson. This is a milestone discovery future generations will have in their textbooks. 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