{"id":12561,"date":"2015-07-31T10:27:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T17:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=12561"},"modified":"2015-07-31T10:27:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T17:27:45","slug":"spacetime-storified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/31\/spacetime-storified\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacetime, Storified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had some spare minutes the other day, and had been thinking about the fate of spacetime in a quantum universe, so I took to the internet to let my feelings be heard. Only a few minutes, though, so I took advantage of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmcarroll\">Twitter<\/a> rather than do a proper blog post. But through the magic of <a href=\"https:\/\/storify.com\/\">Storify<\/a>, I can turn the former into the latter!<\/p>\n<p>Obviously the infamous 140-character limit of Twitter doesn&#8217;t allow the level of precision and subtlety one would always like to achieve when talking about difficult topics. But restrictions lead to creativity, and the results can actually be a bit more accessible than unfettered prose might have been.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, spacetime isn&#8217;t fundamental, it&#8217;s just a useful approximation in certain regimes. Someday we hope to know what it&#8217;s an approximation to.<\/p>\n<div class=\"storify\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/storify.com\/seanmcarroll\/spacetime\/embed?border=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><script src=\"\/\/storify.com\/seanmcarroll\/spacetime.js?border=false\"><\/script><noscript>[<a href=\"\/\/storify.com\/seanmcarroll\/spacetime\" target=\"_blank\">View the story &#8220;Spacetime&#8221; on Storify<\/a>]<\/noscript><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had some spare minutes the other day, and had been thinking about the fate of spacetime in a quantum universe, so I took to the internet to let my feelings be heard. Only a few minutes, though, so I took advantage of Twitter rather than do a proper blog post. But through the magic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12562,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561\/revisions\/12562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}