{"id":314,"date":"2008-05-16T11:10:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T16:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/314"},"modified":"2008-05-16T11:10:31","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T16:10:31","slug":"coherent-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/314","title":{"rendered":"Coherent Google?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2008\/05\/laser08.gif' title='laser08.gif'><img src='http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2008\/05\/laser08.gif' alt='laser08.gif' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s logo in recognition of May 16, 1960 being the day the first laser was demonstrated.  So that&#8217;s good.  But geek pedantry gets in the way \u2014 you can only see a laser from the side if there&#8217;s something to scatter the light, so they are depicting a layout with a really poor air filtration system in operation and\/or reinforcing a Hollywood myth about lasers.<\/p>\n<p>(I really like Google.  That I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/153\">pick on<\/a> them <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/242\">occasionally<\/a> should not be misconstrued as anything mean-spirited.  It&#8217;s more like constructive criticism:  seeking geek perfection.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s logo in recognition of May 16, 1960 being the day the first laser was demonstrated. So that&#8217;s good. But geek pedantry gets in the way \u2014 you can only see a laser from the side if there&#8217;s something to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/314\">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":[39,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}