{"id":2337,"date":"2009-04-27T18:07:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T01:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/04\/27\/boltzmann-in-the-funny-pages\/"},"modified":"2009-04-27T18:07:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T01:07:45","slug":"boltzmann-in-the-funny-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/27\/boltzmann-in-the-funny-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Boltzmann in the Funny Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/08\/01\/boltzmanns-anthropic-brain\/\">Brains<\/a>, anyway.  (Which he never talked about himself, but that&#8217;s neither here nor there.)  Random fluctuations make an appearance in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dilbert.com\/strips\/comic\/2009-04-27\/\">Dilbert<\/a>.  (Hat tip Nick Suntzeff.)<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dilbert.com\/strips\/comic\/2009-04-27\/\"><img src='http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2009\/04\/boltzmann-dilbert.jpg' alt='Boltzmann brains in Dilbert' \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>One can only wonder what <em>Calvin and Hobbes<\/em> could have done with this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Brains, anyway. (Which he never talked about himself, but that&#8217;s neither here nor there.) Random fluctuations make an appearance in Dilbert. (Hat tip Nick Suntzeff.) One can only wonder what Calvin and Hobbes could have done with this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,31,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-science-and-the-media","category-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337","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=2337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}