{"id":2687,"date":"2012-07-04T14:11:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T18:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2012-07-04T14:17:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T18:17:00","slug":"hawking-on-the-higgs-i-just-lost-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2012\/07\/04\/hawking-on-the-higgs-i-just-lost-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawking on the Higgs: It&#8217;s a pity in a way&#8230; I just lost $100."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to the announced <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/2012\/07\/04\/higgs-boson-confirmed-worlds-media-mass-at-cern-in-celebration\/\">discovery of the Higgs<\/a> particle, superhero physicist Stephen Hawking said in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-18708626\">BBC interview<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The results at Fermilab in america, and CERN in switzerland,<br \/>\nstrongly suggest we have found the Higgs particle,<br \/>\nthe particle that gives mass to other particles.<\/p>\n<p>If the decay and other interactions of this particle are as we expect,<br \/>\nit will be strong evidence for the so-called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Standard_Model\">Standard Model<\/a> of<br \/>\nparticle physics, the theory that explains all our experiments so far.<br \/>\nThis is an important result, and should earn Peter Higgs a Nobel Prize.<\/p>\n<p>But it is a &#8211; a pity in a way, because the greatest advances in physics<br \/>\nhave come from experiments that gave results we didn&#8217;t expect.<br \/>\nFor this reason, I had a bet with Gordon Kane at Michigan University<br \/>\nthat the Higgs particle wouldn&#8217;t be found.<br \/>\nit seems I have just lost $100.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to the announced discovery of the Higgs particle, superhero physicist Stephen Hawking said in a BBC interview: &#8220;The results at Fermilab in america, and CERN in switzerland, strongly suggest we have found the Higgs particle, the particle that gives mass to other particles. If the decay and other interactions of this particle are as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[206,1657],"tags":[60662,60658,60663],"class_list":["post-2687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-mod","category-blogroll","tag-hawking","tag-higgs","tag-long-bets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-Hl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2691,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions\/2691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}