{"id":12586,"date":"2012-10-12T03:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12586"},"modified":"2012-10-12T03:00:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T08:00:20","slug":"lets-ask-gandalf-the-monochromatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12586","title":{"rendered":"Let&#039;s Ask Gandalf the Monochromatic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prolific week for Chad Orzel, with the Nobel summaries and this piece on spectroscopy:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2012\/10\/why-gandalf-is-wrong\">Gandalf Was Wrong: Middle-earth Needs Science<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[A]s I grew up to become a physicist working with atoms and lasers, I\u2019ve only become more convinced that Gandalf is wrong. Splitting light isn\u2019t a mistake, it\u2019s the first step on the path toward our modern understanding of the universe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prolific week for Chad Orzel, with the Nobel summaries and this piece on spectroscopy: Gandalf Was Wrong: Middle-earth Needs Science [A]s I grew up to become a physicist working with atoms and lasers, I\u2019ve only become more convinced that Gandalf &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12586\">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-12586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12586","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=12586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}