{"id":368,"date":"2008-06-20T17:14:50","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T22:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2008-09-23T10:43:32","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T15:43:32","slug":"cern-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"Cern Burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel vaguely disappointed that the Large Hadron Collidor, scheduled to go on line in the fall, has been deemed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/21\/science\/21cernw.html?ref=science\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;no threat to Earth or the universe.&#8221;<\/a>  I liked the idea of scientists accidentally creating a world-consuming black hole or a cosmos-collapsing quogulum.*<\/p>\n<p>Now we have to go back to worrying about environmental destruction, terrorism, and economic decline &#8211; slow, painful ways for civilizations to die.  How icky.<\/p>\n<p>*Quogulum (n): a big unexplained science thingie that destroys the universe.  I just made it up.  Go ahead, use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel vaguely disappointed that the Large Hadron Collidor, scheduled to go on line in the fall, has been deemed &#8220;no threat to Earth or the universe.&#8221; I liked the idea of scientists accidentally creating a world-consuming black hole or a cosmos-collapsing quogulum.* Now we have to go back to worrying about environmental destruction, terrorism, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=368\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cern Burn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-politics-and-world-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}