{"id":411,"date":"2008-06-09T03:43:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T08:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/411"},"modified":"2008-06-09T03:43:52","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T08:43:52","slug":"more-advice-for-the-physicslorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/411","title":{"rendered":"More Advice for the Physicslorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still catching up from more than a day (and more than a blog-cycle) without power.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.builtonfacts.com\/2008\/06\/05\/guide-for-the-amateur-physicist\/\">Guide for the Amateur Physicist<\/a>, which (if I were to have input) might be subtitled &#8220;This is why your missive isn&#8217;t science,&#8221; or, if I were <a href=\"http:\/\/snltranscripts.jt.org\/91\/91escottish.phtml\">Mike Myers in an SNL sketch<\/a>, it might be &#8220;If it&#8217;s not physics, it CRAP!&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[U]ntil your theory can be described mathematically, it has no hope of making clear predictions about the results of experiments. You must be able to get actual numerical answers to problems using your theory. This is an ironclad requirement.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which renders the (unfortunately all-too-common) &#8220;My &#8216;theory&#8217; has no math.  Can you please verify it?&#8221; inquiry moot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still catching up from more than a day (and more than a blog-cycle) without power. Guide for the Amateur Physicist, which (if I were to have input) might be subtitled &#8220;This is why your missive isn&#8217;t science,&#8221; or, if I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/411\">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":[3,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","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=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}