{"id":10934,"date":"2016-12-01T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10934"},"modified":"2016-12-01T10:00:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T15:00:54","slug":"physics-blogging-round-up-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2016\/12\/01\/physics-blogging-round-up-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics Blogging Round-Up: November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not posting as much as I did last year, when I was on sabbatical (gasp, shock, surprise), so making Forbes-blog links dump posts a monthly thing is probably just about sustainable. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/chadorzel\/2016\/11\/02\/what-math-do-you-need-for-physics-it-depends\/\">What Math Do You Need For Physics? It Depends<\/a>: Some thoughts about, well, the math you need to learn to be a physicist. Which may not be all that much, depending on your choice of subfield. Prompted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=8940\">nice response from Peter Woit<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/chadorzel\/2016\/11\/10\/physics-and-the-science-of-finding-missing-pieces\/\">Physics And The Science Of Finding Missing Pieces<\/a>: One of several recent-ish posts prompted by <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2016\/11\/12\/reflections-on-matter-and-interactions\/\">my last term teaching from Matter and Interactions<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/chadorzel\/2016\/11\/15\/how-to-make-a-white-dwarf-with-lasers-and-cold-atoms\/\">How To Make A White Dwarf With Lasers And Cold Atoms<\/a>: An explanation of ultracold plasma physics, prompted by a visit and a very nice colloquium talk by Tom Killian from Rice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/chadorzel\/2016\/11\/21\/the-physics-that-got-left-out-of-arrival\/\">Here&#8217;s The Physics That Got Left Out Of &#8216;Arrival&#8217;<\/a>: As <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2016\/11\/19\/arrival-thoughts\/\">noted previously<\/a>, the movie adaptation of Ted Chiang&#8217;s &#8220;Story of Your Life&#8221; is very god but would&#8217;ve been better if they&#8217;d kept more of the physics from the original story. This is an explanation of that physics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/chadorzel\/2016\/11\/23\/three-candidates-for-the-hamilton-of-physics\/\">Three Candidates For The &#8216;Hamilton&#8217; Of Physics<\/a>: Because I needed something frivolous and morale-boosting, some suggestions for splashy Broadway biographies of some notable physicists.<\/p>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s the month of November for you. The math and <em>Arrival<\/em> posts did really well, traffic-wise, but I&#8217;m probably happiest with the cold plasma one. But, you know, such is science blogging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not posting as much as I did last year, when I was on sabbatical (gasp, shock, surprise), so making Forbes-blog links dump posts a monthly thing is probably just about sustainable. &#8212; What Math Do You Need For Physics? It Depends: Some thoughts about, well, the math you need to learn to be a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2016\/12\/01\/physics-blogging-round-up-november\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Physics Blogging Round-Up: November<\/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":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-forbes-recap","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10934","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=10934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}