{"id":5888,"date":"2010-12-12T21:53:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T05:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=5888"},"modified":"2010-12-12T21:53:34","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T05:53:34","slug":"interview-on-static-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/12\/interview-on-static-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview on Static Limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Reffkin is a radio host at <a href=\"http:\/\/kusf.org\/\">KUSF<\/a> in San Francisco.  His usual gig is classical music, but once a month he hosts a special called <em>Static Limit<\/em> where he delves into physics and cosmology.  Here&#8217;s an interview he did with me a short while back.  Right at the beginning we&#8217;re talking about this very blog, which I am now using to plug the interview, which is mostly about my <a href=\"http:\/\/eternitytohere.com\/\">book<\/a>.  This is what&#8217;s known as &#8220;synergy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Those viewing in an RSS reader, you have to visit the page to click the audio link.)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>David assumes the listeners have been following along previous shows, so we don&#8217;t spend too much time defining general relativity and the Big Bang; we go right for the cutting edge.  But we also covered a lot of meta ground, about the process of doing physics.  He also gave me the most comprehensive list of errata (mostly minor typos) for my book, so I know he read the whole thing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Reffkin is a radio host at KUSF in San Francisco. His usual gig is classical music, but once a month he hosts a special called Static Limit where he delves into physics and cosmology. Here&#8217;s an interview he did with me a short while back. Right at the beginning we&#8217;re talking about this very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-science","category-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888","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=5888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}