{"id":11818,"date":"2012-06-04T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11818"},"modified":"2012-06-04T03:00:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T08:00:09","slug":"these-are-rights-not-commandments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11818","title":{"rendered":"These Are Rights, not Commandments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aps.org\/publications\/apsnews\/200003\/zero-gravity.cfm\">The Physicists&#8217; Bill of Rights<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We hold these postulates to be intuitively obvious, that all physicists are born equal, to a first approximation, and are endowed by their creator with certain discrete privileges, among them a mean rest life, n degrees of freedom, and the following rights which are invariant under all linear transformations<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s actually a few of these &#8220;rights&#8221; that I think should earn a slap to anyone exercising them, but I&#8217;m just going to assume the author was thinking of string theorists and not worry too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Physicists&#8217; Bill of Rights We hold these postulates to be intuitively obvious, that all physicists are born equal, to a first approximation, and are endowed by their creator with certain discrete privileges, among them a mean rest life, n &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11818\">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":[22,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11818","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=11818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}