{"id":7012,"date":"2011-07-02T21:37:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T04:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=7012"},"modified":"2011-07-02T21:37:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T04:37:59","slug":"i-get-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/02\/i-get-email\/","title":{"rendered":"I Get Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few things warm the heart of a scientist more readily than a query from a young, curious mind, eager to learn about our universe.  Why, just now I received this inquiring email:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>R xxxxxx xxxxxx@hotmail.com to me<\/p>\n<p>   Sean,<\/p>\n<p>   Neutrons have no chemical properties and reflect no light, but they do have mass and occupy space =matter, and clouds of them will never be visible in space!<\/p>\n<p>   I find it difficult to believe people who are supposed to be so smart are suck fucking retards!<\/p>\n<p>   Cheers Retard ,<\/p>\n<p>   Robert<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the curious:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3snwny3\">Lifetime of neutron<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/luy2vn\">Age of the Universe<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Always happy to help a fellow seeker of knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few things warm the heart of a scientist more readily than a query from a young, curious mind, eager to learn about our universe. Why, just now I received this inquiring email: R xxxxxx xxxxxx@hotmail.com to me Sean, Neutrons have no chemical properties and reflect no light, but they do have mass and occupy space [&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-7012","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\/7012","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=7012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}