{"id":9043,"date":"2005-08-22T11:42:23","date_gmt":"2005-08-22T16:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2005\/08\/22\/deep-time\/"},"modified":"2005-08-22T11:42:23","modified_gmt":"2005-08-22T16:42:23","slug":"deep-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/22\/deep-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qwantz.com\/index.pl?comic=604\">Dinosaur comics<\/a> discusses entropy and the fate of the universe.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qwantz.com\/index.pl?comic=604\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/uploads\/dinosaur-entropy.jpg\" alt=\"Dinosaur comics\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>T. Rex muses on the Poincare recurrence theorem and Boltzmann&#8217;s suggested resolution of the <a href=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com\/2004_10_01_preposterousuniverse_archive.html#109892415875650212\">arrow of time<\/a> problem, but Dromiceiomimus seems to have a better understanding of the lessons of modern cosmology.  Utahraptor, meanwhile, argues that the universe is not manifestly ergodic, and insists that the entropy problem is not yet resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinosaur comics discusses entropy and the fate of the universe. T. Rex muses on the Poincare recurrence theorem and Boltzmann&#8217;s suggested resolution of the arrow of time problem, but Dromiceiomimus seems to have a better understanding of the lessons of modern cosmology. Utahraptor, meanwhile, argues that the universe is not manifestly ergodic, and insists that [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043","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=9043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}