{"id":1413,"date":"2011-12-16T07:40:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T07:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/2011\/12\/16\/jagadish-manrakhan-2\/"},"modified":"2019-12-02T10:38:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T06:38:31","slug":"jagadish-manrakhan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/jagadish-manrakhan-2\/","title":{"rendered":"More Light on Particle Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>By Jagadish Manrakhan<\/strong><\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At CERN, 13 December 2011, <strong>two<\/strong> independent teams found tentative signs in <strong>practice<\/strong> that might indicate the Higgs\u2019 Boson, in accordance with the <strong>theory<\/strong> of the Standard Model of Particle Physics within acceptable Space-Time characteristics \u2013 bringing considerable satisfaction to all those involved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Whether that heavy particle actually exists or not, remains a moot point on which CERN will ponder and act upon for at least the next 12 months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are many other relevant features that warrant further consideration:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Let us mention three of those:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The impact of faster-than-light on the Standard Model itself, reported upon previously (still on probation, as it were)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Whither \u2018luminiferous\u2019 ether and the elusive dark matter forming 90 to 99% of the Universe?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Parallel Universes (beyond \u2018science-fiction).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em>* Published in print edition on 16 December 2011<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jagadish Manrakhan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":6560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13186],"tags":[20473,13574,16356,20472,20474],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forum","tag-cern","tag-higgs-boson","tag-jagadish-manrakhan","tag-particle-physics","tag-standard-model-of-particle-physics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MT-Logokk.jpg?fit=1200%2C880&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8QzSF-mN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}