{"id":13471,"date":"2013-04-15T03:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=13471"},"modified":"2013-04-15T03:00:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T08:00:25","slug":"the-answer-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13471","title":{"rendered":"The Answer Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was cleaning up my inbox the other day and accidentally opened up the box below Admin, which is Answerguy, and one I had forgotten about. Several years ago I was &#8220;The Answer Guy&#8221; (or at least I had his email address) for our web page, back in the days when I took care of my research group&#8217;s web page. The legacy site is <a href=\"http:\/\/tycho.usno.navy.mil\/clockdev\/RubidiumFountain.html\">still present<\/a> but in some sense is no longer &#8220;official&#8221; and has not been maintained in some time (the cesium fountain page has been dormant <a href=\"http:\/\/tycho.usno.navy.mil\/clockdev\/cesium.html\">even longer<\/a>). The current official page for work is much more sterile and doesn&#8217;t even discuss the clock details at all.<\/p>\n<p>I got a number of inquires over the three or four years that the email address was active. A few crackpotty ones, several good questions, and a few from people who couldn&#8217;t find contact info on the pages other departments were maintaining, so there were several moon phase and time-of-sunset inquiries I punted. But I like this one, in particular:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To whom it may concern, My name is Christopher I am a sophomore in highschool and conducting a science fair project on time travel. I am not sure if this is the appropriate email address for this, but i am trying to obtain an atomic clock that measures to the nanosecond. If you have any information please please email me as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely, Christopher<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was cleaning up my inbox the other day and accidentally opened up the box below Admin, which is Answerguy, and one I had forgotten about. Several years ago I was &#8220;The Answer Guy&#8221; (or at least I had his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13471\">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":[39,54,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-the-lab","category-tmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13471","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=13471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}