{"id":3922600,"date":"2025-10-30T09:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/why-weakly-interacting-massive-particles-became-the-toughest-particles-in-physics\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:04:08","slug":"why-weakly-interacting-massive-particles-became-the-toughest-particles-in-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/why-weakly-interacting-massive-particles-became-the-toughest-particles-in-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Weakly Interacting Massive Particles became the toughest particles in physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>As a kid, did you ever play that game Guess Who? If you haven&#8217;t, it&#8217;s actually kinda fun. You have two players, each with a board in front of them. On the board are a bunch of flip cards with different characters. You have to guess your opponent&#8217;s secret identity through a process of elimination. You ask if they&#8217;re a kid or an adult, or a boy or a girl, or if they&#8217;re wearing glasses or bald. If you ask the right questions, and eliminate the correct possibilities, you&#8217;re left with only one remaining option: your opponent&#8217;s secret identity.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-10-weakly-interacting-massive-particles-toughest.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a kid, did you ever play that game Guess Who? If you haven&#8217;t, it&#8217;s actually kinda fun. You have two players, each with a board in front of them. On the board are a bunch of flip cards with different characters. You have to guess your opponent&#8217;s secret identity through a process of elimination. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}