{"id":1664,"date":"2007-08-17T09:32:15","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T09:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/08\/17\/ask-a-string-theorist-1\/"},"modified":"2007-08-17T09:32:15","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T09:32:15","slug":"ask-a-string-theorist-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/08\/17\/ask-a-string-theorist-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask a String Theorist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, I&#8217;d like to thank Chad for the keys to his internet-house for the next few weeks. If you&#8217;re here, you know that one of the things Chad believes in (and is quite good at) is using his weblog for the exposition of science for the general public. While I don&#8217;t think I can manage any funny dog stories, I&#8217;d like to try to follow his example. I have some ideas already planned (such as, god help me, a three part series on the multiverse), but I thought as an initial post here, I&#8217;d go straight to the public. What do you want to hear about? Is there some aspect of string theory, quantum gravity or quantum field theory that you want explained? I can&#8217;t guarantee that I&#8217;ll know the answer or be able to explain it, but I&#8217;ll give it a shot or see if I can <strike>con<\/strike> get someone I know to try.<\/p>\n<p>(and if anyone I know sees something they&#8217;d like to talk about, thus saving me work, give me an e-mail, he says optimistically)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, I&#8217;d like to thank Chad for the keys to his internet-house for the next few weeks. If you&#8217;re here, you know that one of the things Chad believes in (and is quite good at) is using his weblog for the exposition of science for the general public. While I don&#8217;t think I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/08\/17\/ask-a-string-theorist-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ask a String Theorist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,64,7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aaron","category-guest_bloggers","category-physics","category-string_theory","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}