{"id":460,"date":"2006-08-04T08:59:19","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T08:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/04\/know-your-gadfly-theorists\/"},"modified":"2006-08-04T08:59:19","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T08:59:19","slug":"know-your-gadfly-theorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/04\/know-your-gadfly-theorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Gadfly Theorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the perks of this semi-pro blogging gig is that people have started sending me free copies of books about physics. I&#8217;m halfway through a new book on quantum mechanics at the moment, and a copy of Lee Smolin&#8217;s forthcoming <cite>The Trouble With Physics<\/cite> is on its way.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t wait to hear what I have to say about the book (which might take a while, as I don&#8217;t have much reading time any more), Bee at Backreaction has <a href=\"http:\/\/backreaction.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/lee-smolins-trouble-with-physics.html\">an advance review<\/a> posted already. And if you can&#8217;t get enough of Lee Smolin (Loop Quantum Gravity theorist and string theory opponent), she also has <a href=\"http:\/\/backreaction.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/lees-comments.html\">an interview with the man himself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(His publisher also offered an interview opportunity, along with the book, but given that at the moment I know him primarily as the second-best person at annoying Jacques Distler online (trailing Peter Woit by a large margin), I don&#8217;t really have sensible questions to ask.)<\/p>\n<p>The book sounds interesting, and I look forward to reading it. In my copious free time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the perks of this semi-pro blogging gig is that people have started sending me free copies of books about physics. I&#8217;m halfway through a new book on quantum mechanics at the moment, and a copy of Lee Smolin&#8217;s forthcoming The Trouble With Physics is on its way. If you can&#8217;t wait to hear&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/04\/know-your-gadfly-theorists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Know Your Gadfly Theorists<\/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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-string_theory","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","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=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}