{"id":2592,"date":"2008-05-11T15:53:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T15:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/11\/physics-for-babies\/"},"modified":"2008-05-11T15:53:01","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T15:53:01","slug":"physics-for-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/11\/physics-for-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics for Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate and I made a run to Babies &#8220;R&#8221; Us today, and looked at a bunch more baby stuff. We got a little punchy after a while, so it was perhaps not surprising that I was tremendously amused by the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Infantino-150-211-Penguin-Bowling\/dp\/B000EUMOZU\">Penguin Bowling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On further reflection, though, it&#8217;s really only natural. After all, the toy is really nothing more than a child&#8217;s introduction to the study of physics. It&#8217;s really an educational tool that captures the very essence of physics: we learn about the world we live in by throwing things at other things, and seeing what happens when they collide. Sometimes we throw photons at atoms, or protons at anti-protons,  and sometimes we throw rattly plush bowling balls at crinkly stuffed penguins (or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/International-Playthings-E00133-Friends-Bowling\/dp\/B000087L1K\/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_k2a_1_txt?pf_rd_p=304485601&#038;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-2&#038;pf_rd_t=201&#038;pf_rd_i=B000EUMOZU&#038;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&#038;pf_rd_r=0HRT75MSN28E6XQZ6W4R\">farm animals<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Melissa-Doug-Deluxe-Monster-Bowling\/dp\/B000GL1DTA\/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_k2a_2_img?pf_rd_p=304485601&#038;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-2&#038;pf_rd_t=201&#038;pf_rd_i=B000EUMOZU&#038;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&#038;pf_rd_r=0HRT75MSN28E6XQZ6W4R\">fuzzy monsters<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the target, and whatever the projectile, it&#8217;s all good physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate and I made a run to Babies &#8220;R&#8221; Us today, and looked at a bunch more baby stuff. We got a little punchy after a while, so it was perhaps not surprising that I was tremendously amused by the idea of Penguin Bowling. On further reflection, though, it&#8217;s really only natural. After all, the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/11\/physics-for-babies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Physics for Babies<\/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":[74,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurebaby","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592","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=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}