{"id":3847,"date":"2012-10-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2012\/10\/02\/why-the-higgs-boson-is-called-the-god-particle\/"},"modified":"2012-10-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T00:00:00","slug":"why-the-higgs-boson-is-called-the-god-particle","status":"publish","type":"physics_colloquium","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/colloquium\/why-the-higgs-boson-is-called-the-god-particle\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Higgs Boson is Called \u201cThe God Particle\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"page-featured-image\" class=\"wp-block-image is-style-alignleft\" data-pic=\"pic-530.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/01\/pic-530.png\" alt=\"Promotional image for talk: Elements of a successful scientific talk\" data-pic=\"pic-530.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Speaker(s):<\/strong> John S. Townsend<\/p>\n<p>I will discuss how spontaneous symmetry breaking in gauge theories via the Higgs mechanism generates the masses of the elementary particles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3847","physics_colloquium","type-physics_colloquium","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium\/3847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_colloquium"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}