{"id":5663,"date":"2011-06-13T07:17:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T07:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/13\/links-for-2011-06-13\/"},"modified":"2011-06-13T07:17:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T07:17:38","slug":"links-for-2011-06-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/13\/links-for-2011-06-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-06-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/builtonfacts\/2011\/06\/maru_the_cat_does_dimensional.php?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BuiltOnFacts+%28Built+on+Facts%29\">Maru the Cat does dimensional analysis : Built on Facts<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Here is a picture of (I think) Maru the cat playing in a bag. He loves bags.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the same picture of Maru, at half the size:<\/p>\n<p>Now imagine that Maru is a physicist and the pictures are not pictures but instead windows into the universe he occupies, separate from ours with (possibly) its own unique set of physical laws. The only difference between the two universes is that one has the lengths of everything reduced by a factor of 2.<\/p>\n<p>Can the parallel versions of Maru tell which universe they&#8217;re in &#8211; the smaller or the larger? &#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/math\">math<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/built-on-facts\">built-on-facts<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maru the Cat does dimensional analysis : Built on Facts &#8220;Here is a picture of (I think) Maru the cat playing in a bag. He loves bags. Here is the same picture of Maru, at half the size: Now imagine that Maru is a physicist and the pictures are not pictures but instead windows into&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/13\/links-for-2011-06-13\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-06-13<\/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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","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=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}