{"id":4156,"date":"2009-10-12T08:34:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T08:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/10\/12\/many-worlds-many-comics\/"},"modified":"2009-10-12T08:34:36","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T08:34:36","slug":"many-worlds-many-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/10\/12\/many-worlds-many-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Worlds, Many Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Digital Cuttlefish looks at the Archie comics<\/a>, and waxes poetic:<\/p>\n

\n

Two paths play out in a comic book,
\nWhen Archie walks down memory lane
\n“The road not taken” is the hook;
\nSo now, the writers take a look
\nAnd re-write Archie’s life again,<\/p>\n

This time with Betty as his bride;
\nVeronica the woman spurned,
\nWho once upon a time, with pride,
\nWas wed to Archie. Thus allied,
\nThey lived while many seasons turned.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Why am I commenting on this, given that what little I know about Archie I learned from The Comics Curmudgeon<\/a> and Chasing Amy<\/cite>? Because he goes on to talk about the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum physics, citing Emmy as a reference<\/a>. The Cuttlefish, you see, won an advance copy of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a> in the poetry contest.<\/p>\n

If you’d like an early look at the explanation of how Many-Worlds works, you, too can enter to win an advance copy of the book– just donate to my DonorsChoose challenge<\/a>, and send me the confirmation email. You’ll be entered into a random drawing for an advance copy of the book. And, as a bonus, you’ll help deserving school children by giving their teachers money to buy badly needed supplies.<\/p>\n

In some branch of the unitarily evolving wavefunction of the universe, all public schools in this country have ample funding to carry out their mission. That branch is not the one we live in, though, and kids and teachers can use some help. So if you’ve got some spare cash lying around– any amount will do– please consider donating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Digital Cuttlefish looks at the Archie comics, and waxes poetic: Two paths play out in a comic book, When Archie walks down memory lane “The road not taken” is the hook; So now, the writers take a look And re-write Archie’s life again, This time with Betty as his bride; Veronica the woman spurned,… Continue reading Many Worlds, Many Comics<\/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":[8,5,18,44,13,7,37,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-blogs","category-books","category-donorschoose_fundraiser","category-education","category-physics","category-pop_culture","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156","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=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}