{"id":5449,"date":"2010-05-06T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5449"},"modified":"2010-05-06T03:00:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T08:00:15","slug":"you-keep-using-that-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5449","title":{"rendered":"You Keep Using That Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/i_do_not_think_adiabatic_means.php?\">I Do Not Think &#8220;Adiabatic&#8221; Means What You Think It Means<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The definition of &#8220;adiabatic&#8221; given above, namely a process that occurs very quickly, is amusing to me because it&#8217;s almost exactly the opposite of the definition I usually encounter. In my corner of cold-atom physics and quantum optics, when we talk about something being &#8220;adiabatic,&#8221; we almost always means that it&#8217;s a process that takes place <em>slowly<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You should read the post that induced this, <a href=\"http:\/\/thevirtuosi.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/letting-air-out-of-tires.html\">Letting Air Out of Tires<\/a>, and its followup, <a href=\"http:\/\/thevirtuosi.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/letting-air-out-of-tires-ii.html\">Letting Air Out of Tires II<\/a> (The Wrath of Lance Armstrong)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Do Not Think &#8220;Adiabatic&#8221; Means What You Think It Means The definition of &#8220;adiabatic&#8221; given above, namely a process that occurs very quickly, is amusing to me because it&#8217;s almost exactly the opposite of the definition I usually encounter. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5449\">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-5449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449","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=5449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}