{"id":566,"date":"2012-08-01T18:50:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T02:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=566"},"modified":"2012-08-01T18:50:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T02:50:23","slug":"higgs-boson-higgs-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"Higgs Boson, Higgs Field?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, really, now they give a high probability to having seen if not the Higgs Boson, then the odd pattern of decay particles it was calculated to generate.. and then what that refers to&#8212;this is VERY WEIRD&#8212; a&#160; &quot;Higgs Field&quot; that pervades the cosmos and without which nothing would be thing-ish, no mass. So I\u2019m not a bit dissuaded from entertaining somewhat neo-Platonic ideas, or David Bohm\u2019s notion of an implicate order: We are only trying to figure out the outer layer of the phenomena, analyzing the metaphoric shadows on the wall in Plato\u2019s allegory of the cave. If we use the history of electricity as an analogy as described in David Bodanis\u2019 book, it suggests that a primary dynamic may have scores of permutations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, really, now they give a high probability to having seen if not the Higgs Boson, then the odd pattern of decay particles it was calculated to generate.. and then what that refers to&#8212;this is VERY WEIRD&#8212; a&#160; &quot;Higgs Field&quot; that pervades the cosmos and without which nothing would be thing-ish, no mass. So I\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-spirituality-and-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566"}],"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=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}