{"id":8847,"date":"2012-09-21T08:41:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T15:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=8847"},"modified":"2012-09-21T08:41:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T15:41:08","slug":"why-string-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/21\/why-string-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Why String Theory?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whystringtheory.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2012\/09\/wst.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"87\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8848\" \/><\/a> Breathless press reports notwithstanding, string theory is very far from being dead. If you&#8217;re interested in what it is and what&#8217;s going on within the field, I can recommend a new website called <a href=\"http:\/\/whystringtheory.com\/\">Why String Theory?<\/a> (And of course, accompanying twitter feed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhyStringTheory\">@WhyStringTheory<\/a>.) It was set up by Oxford undergraduates Charlotte Mason and Edward Hughes, working under Joseph Conlon. It&#8217;s a very engaging and professional-looking site, featuring a great deal of explanatory material.<\/p>\n<p>Developing pedagogical sites like this is a great project for undergrads; the only looming issue is keeping the site going once the students move on to bigger and better things. Hopefully this one is kept up &#8212; I think an initial surge of interest has already been taxing the poor web server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breathless press reports notwithstanding, string theory is very far from being dead. If you&#8217;re interested in what it is and what&#8217;s going on within the field, I can recommend a new website called Why String Theory? (And of course, accompanying twitter feed @WhyStringTheory.) It was set up by Oxford undergraduates Charlotte Mason and Edward Hughes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8847","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=8847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}