{"id":10766,"date":"2012-01-12T03:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=10766"},"modified":"2012-01-12T03:00:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T08:00:58","slug":"be-glad-its-not-unionized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10766","title":{"rendered":"Be Glad it&#039;s not Unionized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/physics\/blog\/2012\/01\/what-if-quantum-mechanics-went-on-strike\/\">What If Quantum Mechanics Went On Strike?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My nine-year-old son liked the NOVA episode on the quantum realm so much that he watched it twice, but when I told him that we are surrounded by quantum-powered technology, he was skeptical. \u201cPoint to any machine you can see,\u201d I challenged him, as we stood in our family room.<\/p>\n<p>His first selection was a glowing ornament hanging on our Christmas tree. \u201cAha,\u201d I said, feeling vindicated. \u201cSee those little green lights? Those are LEDs\u2014light-emitting diodes\u2014that make light by passing electrons through a semiconductor material that has some extra ingredients mixed into it. As the electrons move from one side of the semiconductor to the other, they drop into a lower energy level and spit out a photon of light. The color of the light corresponds to the amount of energy the electrons lose.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What If Quantum Mechanics Went On Strike? My nine-year-old son liked the NOVA episode on the quantum realm so much that he watched it twice, but when I told him that we are surrounded by quantum-powered technology, he was skeptical. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10766\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}