{"id":14826,"date":"2014-03-31T03:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=14826"},"modified":"2014-03-31T03:00:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T08:00:27","slug":"what-happens-next-will-astound-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14826","title":{"rendered":"What Happens Next Will Astound You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/david-blake\/top-10-physics-findings-that-will-tangle-your-brain_b_5022866.html\">Top 10 Physics Findings That Will Tangle Your Brain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>zapperz has <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsandphysicists.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/10-things-that-can-tangle-your-brain.html\">already covered this<\/a>; it&#8217;s got the usual hits like equating quantum teleportation and Star Trek, but the idea that the slowing of the earth means that time is slowing down is a new one. The mistake it makes is old, though; the slowing is an acceleration. 1.4 ms\/day\/century means that in another 100 years, all things being equal, the slowdown will be 2.8 ms\/day. And that even if the rotation stabilized, if the rate were smaller then the earth would still run slow. It would just do it at a constant rate.<\/p>\n<p>The one that gets me in the list is &#8220;stopped light.&#8221; The experiment is quite cool \u2014 being able to absorb light and then recreate the beam later with all of the information about its coherence and polarization intact \u2014 but &#8220;stopped light&#8221; is hyperbole. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top 10 Physics Findings That Will Tangle Your Brain zapperz has already covered this; it&#8217;s got the usual hits like equating quantum teleportation and Star Trek, but the idea that the slowing of the earth means that time is slowing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14826\">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-14826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14826","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=14826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}