{"id":3519,"date":"2009-12-13T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2009-12-13T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T19:53:00","slug":"this-week-on-in-retrospect-not-the-best-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/13\/this-week-on-in-retrospect-not-the-best-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week on &#8220;In Retrospect, Not the Best Comparison&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the opening sentences of Chapter Five of my <a href=\"http:\/\/eternitytohere.com\/\">book<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When most people hear \u201cscientist,\u201d they think \u201cEinstein.\u201d Albert Einstein is an iconic figure; not many theoretical physicists attain a level of celebrity where their likeness appears regularly on T-shirts.  But it\u2019s an intimidating, distant celebrity. Unlike, say, Tiger Woods, the precise achievements that Einstein is actually famous <em>for<\/em> remain somewhat mysterious to many people who would easily recognize his name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And now we can add, &#8220;and some achievements should really <em>stay<\/em> mysterious, thanks just the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the opening sentences of Chapter Five of my book: When most people hear \u201cscientist,\u201d they think \u201cEinstein.\u201d Albert Einstein is an iconic figure; not many theoretical physicists attain a level of celebrity where their likeness appears regularly on T-shirts. But it\u2019s an intimidating, distant celebrity. Unlike, say, Tiger Woods, the precise achievements that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519","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=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}