{"id":46603,"date":"2019-01-22T04:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46603"},"modified":"2019-01-21T15:38:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T20:38:17","slug":"the-mystery-at-the-bottom-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/22\/the-mystery-at-the-bottom-of-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery at the Bottom of Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EH-z9gE2uGY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>exurb1a<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 21 Jan 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Correction: I pulled a stupid. The fine structure constant is usually given as  1\/137 at low energies, not 137.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Skadfled<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>57 minutes ago<\/em><\/p>\n<p>8:41 it says: &#8220;Full disclosure: The &#8220;physics is deeply logical&#8221; idea is just a pet theory I&#8217;ve shoehorned in here alongside clever people&#8217;s theories to make it look legitimate. But isn&#8217;t there something charming about the idea that the universe is purely geometrical down there at the very bottom? I think so. Then again, plenty of things are charming and still useless. Otters for example (*picture of otter*) Excuse me. Let&#8217;s continue.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>exurb1a Published on 21 Jan 2019 Correction: I pulled a stupid. The fine structure constant is usually given as 1\/137 at low energies, not 137. From the comments: Skadfled 57 minutes ago 8:41 it says: &#8220;Full disclosure: The &#8220;physics is deeply logical&#8221; idea is just a pet theory I&#8217;ve shoehorned in here alongside clever people&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[602],"class_list":["post-46603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-physics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-c7F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46606,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46603\/revisions\/46606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}