{"id":928,"date":"2006-12-14T20:19:15","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T20:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/14\/science-on-the-tree-4\/"},"modified":"2006-12-14T20:19:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T20:19:15","slug":"science-on-the-tree-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/14\/science-on-the-tree-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Science on the Tree 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s Science on the Tree ornament is a little more obscure:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-06ad57ad31e63b5ace4a847832b38206-sm_straw_thing.jpg\" alt=\"i-06ad57ad31e63b5ace4a847832b38206-sm_straw_thing.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Given the conical sort of shape, I suspect it&#8217;s meant to be a Christmas tree, but it&#8217;s abstract enough that it could really be some sort of Calabi-Yau thingy, so we&#8217;ll let this stand as a symbol for string theory and other abstract mathematical areas of science: It&#8217;s intricately patterned, follows elegant mathematical symmetry, and nobody&#8217;s entirely sure what it&#8217;s really supposed to be.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it&#8217;s made of straw. That may have some symbolic meaning, but I&#8217;m not sure what.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s Science on the Tree ornament is a little more obscure:<\/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-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","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=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}