{"id":2819,"date":"2008-08-09T21:24:16","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T21:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/09\/babies-are-bosons\/"},"modified":"2008-08-09T21:24:16","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T21:24:16","slug":"babies-are-bosons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/09\/babies-are-bosons\/","title":{"rendered":"Babies Are Bosons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SteelyKid was born in a small local hospital specializing in maternity care, with maybe 40-50 beds in the whole place. It&#8217;s insanely crowded right now, with most of their patients doubled up in rooms that are often private, and one of the nurses said that they had 24 babies in the nursery last night, including at least two of the four sets of twins born in the last week.<\/p>\n<p>There are only two possible explanations for this: babies are obviously bosons, so we could just be seeing baby bunching, in a sort of obstetric version of the Hanbury Brown and Twiss experiment. Or it could be that other parents and babies were arranging their deliveries so as to have the opportunity to share a nursery with SteelyKid.<\/p>\n<p>I know which I&#8217;m going with:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-dc43752a872a7c43b354f718cbbe2bf3-sm_sleepykid2.jpg\" alt=\"i-dc43752a872a7c43b354f718cbbe2bf3-sm_sleepykid2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I mean, who wouldn&#8217;t want to be close to that?<\/p>\n<p>Below the fold, a rare picture in which her eyes are open:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-9e616a52c560be9fccca3b6d7e87e8c3-sm_touchdown.jpg\" alt=\"i-9e616a52c560be9fccca3b6d7e87e8c3-sm_touchdown.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SteelyKid says &#8220;Touchdown! Go Giants!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SteelyKid was born in a small local hospital specializing in maternity care, with maybe 40-50 beds in the whole place. It&#8217;s insanely crowded right now, with most of their patients doubled up in rooms that are often private, and one of the nurses said that they had 24 babies in the nursery last night, including&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/09\/babies-are-bosons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Babies Are Bosons<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steelykid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","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=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}