{"id":908,"date":"2006-12-11T20:32:23","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T20:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/11\/science-on-the-tree\/"},"modified":"2006-12-11T20:32:23","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T20:32:23","slug":"science-on-the-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/11\/science-on-the-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Science on the Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remarked to Kate the other night that it&#8217;s a shame we don&#8217;t have any science-themed ornaments for the Christmas tree. She responded that I just wasn&#8217;t thinking hard enough about what we do have, and she&#8217;s right&#8211; with a bit of effort, it&#8217;s not hard to come up with scientific symbolism for the ornaments we&#8217;ve got.<\/p>\n<p>So, this is the first of a series of holiday photo-blog posts (how many there end up being will depend on how long it takes me to become bored with this), showing some of the ornaments we have, and providing explanations for how they&#8217;re really all about the science. We&#8217;ll start with an easy one:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-5c0997d731d15df5a16c4ce65b5db1f8-sm_star.jpg\" alt=\"i-5c0997d731d15df5a16c4ce65b5db1f8-sm_star.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The star, of course, stands for astronomy, because I&#8217;m in a Department of Physics and Astronomy. And astronomy would be awfully boring without stars.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, real stars tend to not be made of glass lattice-work, tending instead to be roughly spherical blobs of extremely hot gas, but, you know, it&#8217;s a <strong>symbolic<\/strong> star&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remarked to Kate the other night that it&#8217;s a shame we don&#8217;t have any science-themed ornaments for the Christmas tree. She responded that I just wasn&#8217;t thinking hard enough about what we do have, and she&#8217;s right&#8211; with a bit of effort, it&#8217;s not hard to come up with scientific symbolism for the ornaments&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/11\/science-on-the-tree\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Science on the Tree<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","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=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}