{"id":1541,"date":"2012-08-25T21:03:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T05:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2012-08-25T21:03:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T05:03:47","slug":"review-the-higgs-discovery-the-power-of-empty-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1541","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Higgs Discovery<\/em> is a short discussion of the recent Higgs Boson announcement from Lisa Randall.\u00a0 It includes a couple relevant chapters reprinted from a couple of her books.\u00a0 I picked it up because I wanted to know more about that announcement and what it means for physics.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not a physicist, of course, but I like to believe that I know enough to not completely make a fool of myself in intelligent discussion.\u00a0 This Higgs thing was outside my range, though, and I&#8217;d like to be less lost.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Higgs Discovery<\/em> helped. I&#8217;m far from completely understanding how this all works, or how we think it all works, but I&#8217;m doing better.\u00a0 After reading it, I have the beginnings of an intuition.<\/p>\n<p>To an extent <em>Discovery<\/em> didn&#8217;t make things simple enough for me, and felt jargony where I thought that jargon wasn&#8217;t necessary.\u00a0 I&#8217;m picking nits.\u00a0 This is a very short primer on a complex topic in quantum physics.\u00a0 Randall&#8217;s goal has to be to tell me enough to get me interested enough to pick up a more complete discussion.\u00a0 <em>Discovery<\/em> did that very well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Higgs Discovery is a short discussion of the recent Higgs Boson announcement from Lisa Randall.\u00a0 It includes a couple relevant chapters reprinted from a couple of her books.\u00a0 I picked it up because I wanted to know more about that announcement and what it means for physics.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not a physicist, of course, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-whats-new"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1544,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}