{"id":1241,"date":"2006-05-16T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2006-05-16T09:00:36","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T16:00:36","slug":"not-quite-that-wide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/05\/16\/not-quite-that-wide\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Quite That Wide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2006\/05\/16\/science\/16ligh.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\">article<\/a> today in the New York Times describes a cool experiment with &#8220;backwards propogating light.&#8221;  It&#8217;s a cool experiment, but what I love best from the article is the following line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHowever, the pulses were in a shape known as Gaussian, which is, in principle, infinite in width, though in practice not quite that wide.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Winner of the understatement of the year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article today in the New York Times describes a cool experiment with &#8220;backwards propogating light.&#8221; It&#8217;s a cool experiment, but what I love best from the article is the following line: However, the pulses were in a shape known as Gaussian, which is, in principle, infinite in width, though in practice not quite that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/05\/16\/not-quite-that-wide\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not Quite That Wide&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}