{"id":2172,"date":"2009-04-14T05:36:01","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T10:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2009-04-14T05:36:01","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T10:36:01","slug":"mumbo-meet-jumbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2172","title":{"rendered":"Mumbo, Meet Jumbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skulls in the Stars: <a href=\"http:\/\/skullsinthestars.com\/2009\/04\/13\/levitation-and-diamagnetism-or-leave-earnshaw-alone\/\">Levitation and diamagnetism, or: LEAVE EARNSHAW ALONE!!!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s hard to tell if the author is being snarky or really looks upon mathematical physics as a \u201cmumbojumbo\u201d that impedes progress.  Taking the statement at face value, it highlights an important and semi-common misunderstanding of many physics theorems, and so I thought I\u2019d take a qualitative stab at explaining Earnshaw\u2019s theorem and its relationship to diamagnetic materials and magnetic levitation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skulls in the Stars: Levitation and diamagnetism, or: LEAVE EARNSHAW ALONE!!! It\u2019s hard to tell if the author is being snarky or really looks upon mathematical physics as a \u201cmumbojumbo\u201d that impedes progress. Taking the statement at face value, it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2172\">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":[17,21,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiments","category-history","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172","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=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}