{"id":627319,"date":"2026-04-25T08:11:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627319\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T08:11:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:11:19","slug":"particle-physics-needs-private-funding-for-cerns-next-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627319\/","title":{"rendered":"Particle Physics Needs Private Funding for CERN\u2019s Next Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">There is something wrong with the leading theoretical framework for how the world works. If its equations are correct, neither the Earth nor anything else in the universe could exist. And yet the <a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/science\/physics\/standard-model\" title=\"Standard Model - CERN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Standard Model<\/a> of physics is the best explanation we have, according to scientists at particle physics institute CERN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Fourteen years ago, physicists at <a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/\" title=\"CERN website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">CERN<\/a> popped champagne corks over breakfast, thrilled to have confirmed the existence of the <a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/science\/physics\/higgs-boson\" title=\"Higgs Boson - CERN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Higgs Boson<\/a>, measurable evidence of a previously theoretical field that permeates the universe and gives mass to fundamental particles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is something wrong with the leading theoretical framework for how the world works. If its equations are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[49,3335,48,6257,14206,16720,4721,1829,5212,19616,314,66,127,20139],"class_list":{"0":"post-627319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-physics","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-champagne","12":"tag-defense-spending","13":"tag-department-of-energy","14":"tag-federal-communications-commission","15":"tag-investing","16":"tag-john-elkann","17":"tag-nobel-prize","18":"tag-physics","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-weekend-edition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}