{"id":2299,"date":"2009-04-09T08:23:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T15:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/04\/09\/death-by-physics\/"},"modified":"2009-04-09T08:23:58","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T15:23:58","slug":"death-by-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/09\/death-by-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Death by Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not supposed to give away too much here.  But recall that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/11\/18\/seex\/\">Hollywood loves science<\/a>, and occasionally we can help them out with an interesting idea or two.  So it&#8217;s possible that if you were to watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv.com\/bones\/the-science-in-the-physicist\/episode\/1256483\/summary.html\">tonight&#8217;s episode of <em>Bones<\/em><\/a> (8 p.m., 7 Central, on Fox), our plucky heroes Booth and Brennan could be investigating a murder that makes clever use of expertise in physics.  It&#8217;s even possible that the murder technique was dreamed up in part by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/04\/21\/guest-post-juan-collar-on-dark-matter-detection\/\">one of our previous guest-bloggers<\/a>, which might very well be reflected in the name of the research institute where the dastardly deed takes place.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2009\/04\/deathbyphysics.jpg' alt='deathbyphysics.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve probably said more than I should already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not supposed to give away too much here. But recall that Hollywood loves science, and occasionally we can help them out with an interesting idea or two. So it&#8217;s possible that if you were to watch tonight&#8217;s episode of Bones (8 p.m., 7 Central, on Fox), our plucky heroes Booth and Brennan could be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-science-and-the-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","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=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}