{"id":5285,"date":"2010-08-25T13:59:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T20:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=5285"},"modified":"2010-08-25T13:59:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T20:59:50","slug":"google-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/25\/google-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a tech talk at Google headquarters on the arrow of time, which was a lot of fun.  Must be what all of Silicon Valley was like back in the boom days &#8212; pool tables, free food, volleyball, and lots of smart people everywhere.  Rather than a lecture hall, the talks are held in a big lobby space where people are regularly walking through, so that passers-by can become intrigued and start listening.  Also, it became clear during the questions that at least one Google employee is concerned about how to preserve intelligent life past the 10<sup>100<\/sup> year mark when our universe will be nothing but empty space.  Glad they&#8217;re thinking long-term!<\/p>\n<p>Here is the talk, which is basically at a popular level, although I felt empowered to use the word &#8220;logarithm&#8221; without explanation.  I&#8217;ve also tried to collect other <a href=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/talks\/videos.html\">talks by me<\/a> onto one page, for those who just can&#8217;t get enough. (Hi, Mom!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a tech talk at Google headquarters on the arrow of time, which was a lot of fun. Must be what all of Silicon Valley was like back in the boom days &#8212; pool tables, free food, volleyball, and lots of smart people everywhere. Rather than a lecture hall, the talks are held in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285","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=5285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}