{"id":1985,"date":"2009-03-30T10:39:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T15:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2009-03-30T10:39:07","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T15:39:07","slug":"on-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1985","title":{"rendered":"On the Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsandphysicists.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/how-physics-can-solve-crime-and-help-to.html\">How Physics Can Solve Crime And Help To Cure Cancer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zapperz has a nice little rant, after linking to a story that presents an order-of-magnitude solution to some trivial situation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I also received a rather nasty and profanity-laced &#8220;comment&#8221; to the blog, which basically asked why us &#8220;MF&#8217;s&#8221; are wasting out time and not using our brains to cure cancer<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Short answer:  Chill, bro.  &#8220;We&#8221; (meaning some physicists) are, but OOM calculations are only the <em>beginning<\/em> of such issues, whereas they were the <em>end<\/em> of the &#8220;how much energy does it take to do X&#8221; problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Physics Can Solve Crime And Help To Cure Cancer Zapperz has a nice little rant, after linking to a story that presents an order-of-magnitude solution to some trivial situation. I also received a rather nasty and profanity-laced &#8220;comment&#8221; to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1985\">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-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985","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=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}