{"id":4466,"date":"2016-08-19T09:30:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T13:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4466"},"modified":"2016-08-19T09:30:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T13:30:39","slug":"paganism-at-cern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4466","title":{"rendered":"Paganism at CERN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well.  It seems that some scientists at CERN &#8212; that bunch who recently confirmed the existence of the Higgs Boson, the so-called God Particle, thereby undoing the Cosmological, or First Cause, argument for the existence of Our Invisible Friend &#8212; staged a mock, <i>Blair Witch Project<\/i>-like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2016\/aug\/18\/fake-human-sacrifice-filmed-at-cern-with-pranking-scientists-suspected\" target=\"_blank\">sacrifice of a female co-worker<\/a> (<b>Strong language: NSFW<\/b>).<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ubTJW6LyRz8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThese scenes were filmed on our premises but without official permission or knowledge,\u201d a Cern spokeswoman told Agence France-Presse in an email.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCern does not condone this type of spoof, which can give rise to misunderstandings about the scientific nature of our work.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So a bunch of physicists were probably sitting in some bar and decided it would be fun to mock the Godly folk who are still baffled that Noah&#8217;s Ark has never been found.<\/p>\n<p>Tasteless?  I suppose.  I don&#8217;t mind admitting, though, that I probably would have participated if I&#8217;d been there and had the opportunity, and freely told the story afterward.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well. It seems that some scientists at CERN &#8212; that bunch who recently confirmed the existence of the Higgs Boson, the so-called God Particle, thereby undoing the Cosmological, or First Cause, argument for the existence of Our Invisible Friend &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4466\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4469,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions\/4469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}