{"id":282,"date":"2007-01-02T07:39:37","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T06:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=282"},"modified":"2007-01-02T07:39:37","modified_gmt":"2007-01-02T06:39:37","slug":"how-many-fundamental-particles-are-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"How many fundamental particles are there?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far, we know of 16 elementary or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fundamental_particles\">fundamental particles<\/a> &#8211; and they have wonderful names.<br \/>\nThere are 12 fermions: quarks \u2014 up, down, strange, charm, bottom, top; and leptons \u2014 electron, muon, tau, electron neutrino, muon neutrino, tau neutrino. Then there are 4 gauge bosons \u2013 gluon, W and Z bosons, photon.<br \/>\nBut there might be more fundamental particles and there is particular speculation over the existence of something called the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fundamental_particles#Higgs_boson\">Higgs boson particle<\/a> (sometimes known as the God particle).<br \/>\nIn 2007, there may be new discoveries as a result of the coming into operation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CERN#The_accelerator_of_the_future:_the_LHC\">Large Hadron Collider<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CERN\">CERN<\/a> in Switzerland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, we know of 16 elementary or fundamental particles &#8211; and they have wonderful names. There are 12 fermions: quarks \u2014 up, down, strange, charm, bottom, top; and leptons \u2014 electron, muon, tau, electron neutrino, muon neutrino, tau neutrino. Then there are 4 gauge bosons \u2013 gluon, W and Z bosons, photon. But there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","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\/282","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=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}