{"id":12637,"date":"2015-11-20T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T02:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=12637"},"modified":"2015-11-20T18:00:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T02:00:35","slug":"long-term-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/20\/long-term-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-Term Forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1606\/\">This xkcd cartoon<\/a> is undeniably awesome as-is, but the cosmologist in me couldn&#8217;t resist adding one more row at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1606\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/xkcd-fiveday.jpg\" alt=\"xkcd-fiveday\" width=\"501\" height=\"535\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/xkcd-fiveday.jpg 501w, https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/xkcd-fiveday-281x300.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looks like the forecast calls for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/01\/boltzmanns-anthropic-brain\/\">Boltzmann Brains<\/a>! I guess <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/05\/squelching-boltzmann-brains-and-maybe-eternal-inflation\/\">Hilbert space is finite-dimensional<\/a> after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This xkcd cartoon is undeniably awesome as-is, but the cosmologist in me couldn&#8217;t resist adding one more row at the bottom. Looks like the forecast calls for Boltzmann Brains! I guess Hilbert space is finite-dimensional after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637","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=12637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12640,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637\/revisions\/12640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}