{"id":1588,"date":"2007-07-24T08:32:04","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T15:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2007-07-24T08:32:04","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T15:32:04","slug":"dude-a-higs-boson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/07\/24\/dude-a-higs-boson\/","title":{"rendered":"Dude, a Higs Boson?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Best quote from an <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/24\/science\/24ferm.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\">article<\/a> in the New York Times about the search for the Higgs boson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nJoe Lykken, a Fermilab theorist who said he first learned of the rumored bump the old-fashioned way, over lunch in the laboratory cafeteria, said: \u201cPre-blog, this sort of rumor would have circulated among perhaps a few dozen physicists. Now with blogs even string theorists who can\u2019t spell Higgs became immediately aware of inside information about D Zero data.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Zing!<br \/>\nI&#8217;m also very jealous of Gordon Watts, a fellow University of Washington <a href=\"https:\/\/gordonwatts.wordpress.com\/\">blogger<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn response, Gordon Watts, a physicist from the University of Washington and longtime member of the D Zero team, scolded Dr. Dorigo for speculating on rumors.<br \/>\n\u201cDude! If you get called by the press to comment on this rumor \u2014 you will be making secondhand comments on rumors!\u201d Dr. Watts wrote on his blog, Life as a Physicist.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why am I jealous?  Because he just got quoted in the New York Times, the paper of record, as saying &#8220;Dude!&#8221;  Dude that rocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best quote from an article in the New York Times about the search for the Higgs boson: Joe Lykken, a Fermilab theorist who said he first learned of the rumored bump the old-fashioned way, over lunch in the laboratory cafeteria, said: \u201cPre-blog, this sort of rumor would have circulated among perhaps a few dozen physicists. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/07\/24\/dude-a-higs-boson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dude, a Higs Boson?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[30,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-ha-ha","category-physics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}