{"id":8654,"date":"2011-05-11T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8654"},"modified":"2011-05-11T03:00:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T08:00:15","slug":"mightier-than-the-sword-but-less-dangerous-than-high-voltage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8654","title":{"rendered":"Mightier Than the Sword, but Less Dangerous Than High Voltage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/05\/why_so_many_theorists.php\">Uncertain Principles:  Why So Many Theorists?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For whatever reason, theoretical physicists and mathematicians are far more likely to be barking mad than experimental physicists. Maybe because concrete comparisons to experimental data require a sort of basic groundedness that theory does not. Maybe because the crazy would-be experimentalists all electrocute themselves early on, and those who survive switch to theory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncertain Principles: Why So Many Theorists? For whatever reason, theoretical physicists and mathematicians are far more likely to be barking mad than experimental physicists. Maybe because concrete comparisons to experimental data require a sort of basic groundedness that theory does &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8654\">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-8654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654","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=8654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}