{"id":656260,"date":"2013-05-06T09:47:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T13:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=75556"},"modified":"2013-05-06T09:47:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T13:47:44","slug":"a-virtual-field-trip-to-cern-via-google-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/656260","title":{"rendered":"A virtual field trip to CERN, via Google Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='586' height='360' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yRrdeFh5-io?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;%23038;fs=1&#038;%23038;showsearch=0&#038;%23038;showinfo=1&#038;%23038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;%23038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Take a bike ride down the 27-kilometer Large Hadron Collider &#8212; thanks to a lucky Google Glass winner, whose ride-along <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yRrdeFh5-io&amp;feature=youtu.be\">video<\/a> premiered Friday during <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2013\/05\/01\/6-reasons-to-watch-tedxcern-this-friday\/\">TEDxCERN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/avheuv\">Andrew Vanden Heuvel<\/a> always dreamed of being an astronaut; he ended up becoming a pioneering online physics teacher. So when he was selected to be one of the first to try out Google Glass, he knew exactly what he wanted to do: travel to Switzerland, go to CERN (aka the <a href=\"http:\/\/home.web.cern.ch\/\">European Laboratory for Particle Physics<\/a>), check out the Large Hadron Collider and beam the live footage back to a classroom.<\/p>\n<p>More: Sergey Brin talked about the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2013\/02\/27\/sergey-brin-with-google-glass-at-ted2013\/\">impetus for creating Google Glass<\/a>, the tech giant\u2019s new augmented-reality headset, at TED2013.<\/p>\n<p>At TED2008, Brian Cox explained what the LHC is looking for: the elusive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/brian_cox_on_cern_s_supercollider.html\">Higgs boson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/75556\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/75556\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=75556&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/ixvxQPCUwaY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a bike ride down the 27-kilometer Large Hadron Collider &#8212; thanks to a lucky Google Glass winner, whose ride-along video premiered Friday during TEDxCERN. Andrew Vanden Heuvel always dreamed of being an astronaut; he ended up becoming a pioneering online physics teacher. So when he was selected to be one of the first to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}