{"id":6725,"date":"2011-04-28T10:46:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T17:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=6725"},"modified":"2011-04-28T10:46:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T17:46:05","slug":"dark-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/28\/dark-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Cham, creator of the celebrated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics.php?f=1430\">PhD Comics<\/a>, sits down to talk with Daniel Whiteson and Jonathan Feng about dark matter (and visible matter!).  But rather than a dry and boring video of the encounter, he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics.php?f=1430\">cleverly illustrates the whole conversation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/22956103\">Dark Matters<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user4844939\">PHD Comics<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s an exaggeration to say we have &#8220;no idea&#8221; about dark energy &#8212; physicists like to say this to impress upon people how weird DE is, but it gives the wrong impression because we actually do know something about it.  But not much!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Cham, creator of the celebrated PhD Comics, sits down to talk with Daniel Whiteson and Jonathan Feng about dark matter (and visible matter!). But rather than a dry and boring video of the encounter, he cleverly illustrates the whole conversation. Dark Matters from PHD Comics on Vimeo. I think it&#8217;s an exaggeration to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725","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=6725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}