{"id":1701,"date":"2009-12-31T10:15:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T09:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2009-12-31T10:15:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T09:15:18","slug":"word-of-the-day-hadron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1701","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: hadron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You probably think that you&#8217;ve never come across the word &#8216;hadron&#8217; but in fact you&#8217;ve possibly come across it in the context of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) without thinking what the word means.<br \/>\nThe LHC is the world&#8217;s largest particle accelerator, a machine some 27 km in circumference, located on the French\/Swiss border near Geneva. Once it is fully operational, it will fire beams of hadron particles in opposite directions at 99.9999991% of the speed of light, recreating the conditions that existed moments after the big bang.<br \/>\nSo what are hadron particles? They are any elementary particles that are capable of taking part in  a strong nuclear interaction. All such particles are made up of quarks &#8211; either baryons, which are made out of three quarks, or mesons, which are made out of two quarks.<br \/>\nSo now you know. But, if you&#8217;re keen to know more, try <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hadron\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably think that you&#8217;ve never come across the word &#8216;hadron&#8217; but in fact you&#8217;ve possibly come across it in the context of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) without thinking what the word means. The LHC is the world&#8217;s largest particle accelerator, a machine some 27 km in circumference, located on the French\/Swiss border near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}