{"id":189,"date":"2012-09-18T10:19:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T18:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/?p=189"},"modified":"2013-03-18T13:59:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T21:59:34","slug":"september-cafe-scientifique-with-isabel-trigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/2012\/09\/18\/september-cafe-scientifique-with-isabel-trigger\/","title":{"rendered":"September Caf\u00e9 Scientifique with Isabel Trigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Caf\u00e9 Scientifiquers, our next caf\u00e9 will happen on<strong> Tuesday September 25th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club<\/strong>. Our speaker for the evening will be <strong>Dr. Isabel Trigger<\/strong>, TRIUMF research scientist.\u00a0 Details of her talk are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Higgs for the Masses: A Peek Under the Hood of the Universe<\/span><strong><br style=\"font-size: large;\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This summer experiments at the world&#8217;s largest particle accelerator at the CERN laboratory in Geneva announced discovery of a subatomic particle &#8220;consistent&#8221; with the one \u00a0believed to give matter its mass. \u00a0The Higgs Boson sparked extraordinary levels of public attention and media interest, in part due to the particle&#8217;s nickname (&#8220;god particle&#8221;), but also since its \u00a0discovery is the result of \u00a0a 40-year quest involving tens of thousands of scientists. \u00a0 But what, exactly, is a Higgs Boson? Why is it important? Who found it, and how? \u00a0And what do we do with it now that we think we&#8217;ve found it? This talk will explore the Higgs Boson and what it means for our understanding of the universe at its most basic level.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Caf\u00e9 Scientifiquers, our next caf\u00e9 will happen on Tuesday September 25th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be Dr. Isabel Trigger, TRIUMF research scientist.\u00a0 Details of her talk are as follows: Higgs for the Masses: A Peek Under the Hood of the Universe This summer experiments at the world&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}