{"id":10038,"date":"2015-05-13T13:37:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T17:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10038"},"modified":"2015-05-13T13:37:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T17:37:09","slug":"philosophy-and-pictures-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/05\/13\/philosophy-and-pictures-of-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy and Pictures of Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been sort of falling down on my obligation to promote myself&#8211; I&#8217;ve written two blog posts for Forbes this week, and forgotten to post about them here. The first is a thing about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/chadorzel\/2015\/05\/11\/the-role-of-philosophy-in-physics\/\">philosophy in physics<\/a>, and how Einstein illustrates both the good and bad aspects of a philosophical approach. <\/p>\n<p>The second is a bit on the listicle side, looking at some types of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/chadorzel\/2015\/05\/12\/five-important-pictures-of-physics\/\">diagrams that physicists draw when talking about physics<\/a>. It&#8217;s prompted by a <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsandphysicists.blogspot.com\/2015\/05\/the-difference-between-cats-and-dogs.html\">ZapperZ post<\/a> noting that scientists talking about science always draw pictures, but other subjects get by with just talking. <\/p>\n<p>These are both quickly-dashed-off sorts of things, as I&#8217;ve had a wretched cold for the last week and a bit, and didn&#8217;t have the brain for any really in-depth physics. And, of course, the philosophy thing has gotten an order of magnitude more views than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/chadorzel\/2015\/05\/05\/the-quantum-physics-of-fenced-in-dogs\/\">last week&#8217;s in-depth dog physics post<\/a>. Ah, the Internet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you hadn&#8217;t seen those before, well, there they are. Go on over and read them. Or don&#8217;t. It&#8217;s all good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been sort of falling down on my obligation to promote myself&#8211; I&#8217;ve written two blog posts for Forbes this week, and forgotten to post about them here. The first is a thing about philosophy in physics, and how Einstein illustrates both the good and bad aspects of a philosophical approach. The second is a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/05\/13\/philosophy-and-pictures-of-physics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Philosophy and Pictures of Physics<\/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":[80,7,11,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history_of_science","category-physics","category-science","category-theory","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}