{"id":7898,"date":"2012-01-01T10:57:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T18:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=7898"},"modified":"2012-01-01T10:57:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T18:57:15","slug":"predictions-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/01\/predictions-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Predictions for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you don&#8217;t enter the new year completely unprepared, here are my most secure predictions for 2012. Unlike other prognostication websites, these predictions are based on <strong>Science<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Freely-falling objects will accelerate toward the ground at an approximately constant rate, up to corrections due to air resistance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Of all the Radium-226 nuclei on the Earth today, 0.04% will decay by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> A line drawn between any planet (or even dwarf planet) and the Sun will sweep out equal areas in equal times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> Hurricanes in the Northern hemisphere will rotate counterclockwise as seen from above.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> The pressure of a gas squeezed in a piston will rise inversely with the change in volume.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6.<\/strong> Electric charges in motion will give rise to magnetic fields.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7.<\/strong> The energy of an object at rest whose mass decreases will also decrease, by the change in mass times the speed of light squared.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8.<\/strong> The content of the world&#8217;s genomes will gradually evolve in ways determined by fitness in a given environment, sexual selection, and random chance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9.<\/strong> The entropy of closed systems will increase.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10.<\/strong> People will do many stupid things, and some surprisingly smart ones.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year, everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you don&#8217;t enter the new year completely unprepared, here are my most secure predictions for 2012. Unlike other prognostication websites, these predictions are based on Science! 1. Freely-falling objects will accelerate toward the ground at an approximately constant rate, up to corrections due to air resistance. 2. Of all the Radium-226 nuclei on the [&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-7898","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\/7898","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=7898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}