{"id":2243,"date":"2008-02-05T10:41:06","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T10:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/02\/05\/darth-vader-vs-my-dog\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T10:41:06","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T10:41:06","slug":"darth-vader-vs-my-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/02\/05\/darth-vader-vs-my-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Darth Vader vs. My Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Paper of Record reports on a science debate, of sorts<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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On one side of a vaunted cultural divide were Doug Liman, director of the coming movie “Jumper,” about a young man who discovers he can transport himself anywhere he wants just by thinking about it, and Hayden Christensen, the film’s star.<\/p>\n

On the other were a pair of the institute’s physics professors, Edward Farhi and Max Tegmark, experts on the type of physics the movie was purporting to portray, who had been enlisted to view a few scenes from it and talk about science.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On the one hand, I find this Physics of Star Trek<\/cite> sort of stuff a little cheesey. The teleportation in the book or movie really has nothing to do with the science of “quantum teleportation,” and using Hayden Christensen as a hook to get people to think about real science has a faint whiff of desperation…<\/p>\n

But really, who am I kidding? I’m writing a book that uses cute dog pictures as a hook to get people to read about real physics…<\/p>\n

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I bet she knows more about quantum physics than Hayden Christensen, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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