{"id":14587,"date":"2014-01-23T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=14587"},"modified":"2014-01-23T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T08:00:00","slug":"representative-sampling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14587","title":{"rendered":"Representative Sampling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2014\/01\/22\/repeat-after-me-particle-physics-is-not-all-of-physics\/\">Repeat After Me: Particle Physics Is Not All of Physics<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]hat [number] almost certainly overestimates the number of people working directly on a Theory of Everything. The fact is, the physicists whose work is genuinely in crisis as a result of recent developments (or, more accurately, the lack thereof) are a tiny minority of professional physicists. They\u2019re vastly overrepresented in the media, in large part because wildly speculative stuff about multiple universes is sexy and provides lots of opportunities for stoner-friendly CGI, but if they all got sucked into a black hole tomorrow (thus settling the \u201cfirewall\u201d debate for good and all), physics as a whole would continue on with barely a hiccup.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repeat After Me: Particle Physics Is Not All of Physics [T]hat [number] almost certainly overestimates the number of people working directly on a Theory of Everything. The fact is, the physicists whose work is genuinely in crisis as a result &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14587\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14587","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=14587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}