{"id":1079,"date":"2007-01-31T08:09:16","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T08:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/31\/two-minutes-of-string-theory\/"},"modified":"2007-01-31T08:09:16","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T08:09:16","slug":"two-minutes-of-string-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/31\/two-minutes-of-string-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Minutes of String Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>Discover<\/cite> magazine has announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discover.com\/twominutesorless\/\">a contest<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Your goal is to create a video that quickly and clearly explains perhaps the most baffling idea in the history of the world: string theory.<\/p>\n<p>And the best part is that you have just two minutes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be happy to know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=512\">Peter Woit has already bowed out<\/a> (suggested concept: standing in front of a whiteboard, hopping up and down, and yelling, &#8220;It&#8217;s crap! Crap crap crap crap crap!&#8221; for two minutes).<\/p>\n<p>This is a sure path to fame and fort&#8211; well, actually, they don&#8217;t appear to be offering money, so just fame. Well, actually, they just promise to feature your video on their web page, so it&#8217;s only nerd fame. But if you&#8217;ve got a webcam and a good two-minute explanation of string theory, <cite>Discover<\/cite> wants you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover magazine has announced a contest: Your goal is to create a video that quickly and clearly explains perhaps the most baffling idea in the history of the world: string theory. And the best part is that you have just two minutes. You&#8217;ll be happy to know that Peter Woit has already bowed out (suggested&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/31\/two-minutes-of-string-theory\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Minutes of String Theory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-string_theory","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","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=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}