{"id":524,"date":"2008-07-02T05:37:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T10:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=524"},"modified":"2008-07-02T05:37:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T10:37:01","slug":"fruit-flies-like-a-banana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/524","title":{"rendered":"Fruit Flies Like a Banana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Quantum Pontiff on <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pontiff\/2008\/07\/occupational_arrows_of_time_1.php\">Occupational Arrows of Time<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Time goes up, damnit, and that&#8217;s all there is to it. Or so say the physicists writing on their blackboards.<br \/>\nOh I hear you. Yes there are physicists for which time doesn&#8217;t always go up, but which can also go up but also in a circle. Yes, Virginia, general relativity allows those crazy solutions (nevermind that they might not be stable.) But those are really loopy physicists who believe in closed-time-like curves. I mean, that sect of the physicists is always going on and on and on about killing their grandfather. Sheesh they&#8217;re enough to make Oedipus jealous (and why is that they kill grandfathers all the time and not their fathers?)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think the kerfuffle is about grandfathers and their pair o&#8217; ducks, but you get the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Quantum Pontiff on Occupational Arrows of Time Time goes up, damnit, and that&#8217;s all there is to it. Or so say the physicists writing on their blackboards. Oh I hear you. Yes there are physicists for which time doesn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/524\">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":[22,35,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-other-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","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=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}