{"id":1056,"date":"2013-07-05T17:32:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T01:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2013-07-05T17:32:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T01:32:03","slug":"the-boze-higgs-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1056","title":{"rendered":"The Boze Higgs-on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven\u2019t heard of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Higgs_boson\" target=\"_blank\">Higgs Boson<\/a>, it\u2019s the particle representative of a theoretical field that gives the cosmos its mass. Never mind the near-inconceivability of this. Some very clever dudes conceived it and we are inclined to believe they know what they\u2019re doing. Truth is, though, that they do and they don\u2019t, in the sense that they are scientists who are only at the front edge of what lies ahead in discovery. As an analogy, consider the scientists in the late 18th century who were just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Electric-Universe-Shocking-Story-Electricity\/dp\/1400045509\" target=\"_blank\">beginning to explore electricity<\/a>. They didn\u2019t begin to imagine its relationship to magnetism or other phenomena.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/07-05a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"07-05a\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"07-05a\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/07-05a_thumb.jpg\" width=\"484\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the Higgs Boson helps explain gravity, mass, heaviness. But in the spirit of symmetry, there\u2019s also the Boze Higgs-on, pictured above in a gen-you-wine doodle. This particle is a diagram of a multi-dimensional view of the field that counters mass and gravity and generates <strong><em>levity<\/em><\/strong>. (Credit must be given to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostwonder.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Hoke<\/a> who noted the fundamental need for levity as well as gravity.) For true spiritual development, it will be as necessary to appreciate the nature and complexity of levity as well as gravity. Ha ha, get it? \u201cHey,&#160; don\u2019t be too serious! Get your Higgs Boz\u2019d!\u201d\u2014Boz, brother of Bozo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven\u2019t heard of the Higgs Boson, it\u2019s the particle representative of a theoretical field that gives the cosmos its mass. Never mind the near-inconceivability of this. Some very clever dudes conceived it and we are inclined to believe they know what they\u2019re doing. Truth is, though, that they do and they don\u2019t, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foolin","category-play-and-spontaneity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}