{"id":347270,"date":"2017-07-20T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=67136d2b8c73089258cb3bca72899a76"},"modified":"2017-07-20T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T18:00:07","slug":"experiment-finds-evidence-for-the-majorana-fermion-a-particle-thats-its-own-antiparticle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=347270","title":{"rendered":"Experiment finds evidence for the Majorana fermion, a particle that&#8217;s its own antiparticle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1928, physicist Paul Dirac made the stunning prediction that every fundamental particle in the universe has an antiparticle &#8211; its identical twin but with opposite charge. When particle and antiparticle met they would be annihilated, releasing a poof of energy. Sure enough, a few years later the first antimatter particle &#8211; the electron&#8217;s opposite, the positron &#8211; was discovered, and antimatter quickly became part of popular culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1928, physicist Paul Dirac made the stunning prediction that every fundamental particle in the universe has an antiparticle &#8211; its identical twin but with opposite charge. When particle and antiparticle met they would be annihilated, releasing a poof&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=347270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347271,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347270\/revisions\/347271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}