{"id":1100,"date":"2011-09-22T23:41:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T06:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2011-09-22T23:42:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T06:42:09","slug":"the-news-from-cern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/09\/the-news-from-cern\/","title":{"rendered":"The news from CERN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The news from CERN is &#8212; very interesting. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-15017484\">According to the BBC<\/a>: &#8220;Puzzling results from Cern, home of the Large Hadron Colider, have confounded physicists because it appears subatomic particles have exceeded the speed of light.&#8221; CERN scientists are releasing their results to allow wider investigation and debate in the scientific community.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not this experimental result winds up being confirmed, what particularly interests me is the willingness to challenge one of the cornerstones of physics. Fallibilism is a powerful principle: even the special theory of relativity has to be up for grabs; everything has to be up for grabs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news from CERN is &#8212; very interesting. According to the BBC: &#8220;Puzzling results from Cern, home of the Large Hadron Colider, have confounded physicists because it appears subatomic particles have exceeded the speed of light.&#8221; CERN scientists are releasing their results to allow wider investigation and debate in the scientific community. Whether or not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/09\/the-news-from-cern\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The news from CERN&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology","tag-fallibilism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1102,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}