{"id":2104,"date":"2007-12-21T07:27:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T07:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/21\/tree-of-science-9\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T07:27:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T07:27:22","slug":"tree-of-science-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/21\/tree-of-science-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree of SCIENCE!!! #9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one may not look like much, but it covers a lot of ground for the Tree of SCIENCE!!!:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-fd0286546f6c2a5e65884dcb938d3032-sm_copper.jpg\" alt=\"i-fd0286546f6c2a5e65884dcb938d3032-sm_copper.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This ornament is built around a copper plaque, and copper is a very good conductor, which means it includes an element of solid state physics.<\/p>\n<p>The copper in the plaque is from the roof of the Library of Congress, which means that this stands for the publication and dissemination of scientific information. SCIENCE!!! can&#8217;t function properly without wide distribution of results. Hey to Bora.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the plaque is embossed with the quote &#8220;Too low they build who build beneath the stars,&#8221; which again is a two-fer. On the most obvious level, it stands for space science, but it&#8217;s also a symbol of scientific arrogance, the belief that no goal is too lofty to be accomplished through SCIENCE!!!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot of SCIENCE!!! for one ornament. Which is probably why it&#8217;s so damn heavy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one may not look like much, but it covers a lot of ground for the Tree of SCIENCE!!!: This ornament is built around a copper plaque, and copper is a very good conductor, which means it includes an element of solid state physics. The copper in the plaque is from the roof of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/21\/tree-of-science-9\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tree of SCIENCE!!! #9<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104","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=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}