{"id":9059,"date":"2005-08-25T22:35:42","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T03:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2005\/08\/25\/friggin-scientists\/"},"modified":"2005-08-25T22:35:42","modified_gmt":"2005-08-26T03:35:42","slug":"friggin-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/25\/friggin-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Friggin&#039; scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the Cosmic Variance\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.qwantz.com\/index.pl?comic=606\">Dinosaur Comics<\/a> synergy:  T. Rex contemplates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/surveys\/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=922202\">multiple universes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qwantz.com\/index.pl?comic=606\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/uploads\/dino-multiverse.jpg\" alt=\"Dinosaur comics\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure that T. Rex would have eventually gotten around to explaining <a href=\"http:\/\/wlap.physics.lsa.umich.edu\/umich\/mctp\/conf\/2001\/sto2001\/guth\/real\/sld002.htm\">eternal inflation<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2005\/08\/14\/the-landscape-for-real-this-time\/\">landscape<\/a>, if only that downer Utahraptor hadn&#8217;t been such a buzzkill.  Maybe we should get Ryan North as a guest blogger?<\/p>\n<p>Except that:  there are plenty of borderline-plausible theories that we haven&#8217;t yet put forward.  We&#8217;re working on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the Cosmic Variance\/Dinosaur Comics synergy: T. Rex contemplates multiple universes. I&#8217;m pretty sure that T. Rex would have eventually gotten around to explaining eternal inflation and the landscape, if only that downer Utahraptor hadn&#8217;t been such a buzzkill. Maybe we should get Ryan North as a guest blogger? Except that: there are plenty of [&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-9059","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\/9059","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=9059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}