{"id":1294,"date":"2006-08-02T14:21:59","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T21:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2006-08-02T14:21:59","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T21:21:59","slug":"all-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/08\/02\/all-of-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"All of Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that bugs the heck out of me, is when I hear particle physicists talk about their field as if it is all of physics.  I have a great love of particle physics, so I&#8217;m not dissing the field at all, nor arguing that it isn&#8217;t more fundamental, but it rubs me the wrong way to disregard all of the rest of physics that is currently going on.  This especially irritates me since it gives students the wrong impression that the only exciting physics is in particle physics.  (Yeah, I know, I&#8217;m in a CS department, so what do I know about physics \ud83d\ude42 BTW)<br \/>\nWhy bring this up?  Because over a <a href=\"http:\/\/nanoscale.blogspot.com\">Nanoscale Views<\/a>, Doug Natelson has just put up a blog post with a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/nanoscale.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/hot-topics-and-controversies.html\">Hot Topics and Controversies<\/a> in condensed matter\/nanoscience.  And if the topics listed don&#8217;t show you an exciting field full of important open problems, then you&#8217;re crazy!  The eventual goal of the post is to discuss each of the items on this list in latter blog posts which is a great idea which I am sourly tempted to steal and try out here with quantum hot topics and controversies (okay, maybe the entire field is controversial!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that bugs the heck out of me, is when I hear particle physicists talk about their field as if it is all of physics. I have a great love of particle physics, so I&#8217;m not dissing the field at all, nor arguing that it isn&#8217;t more fundamental, but it rubs me the wrong &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/08\/02\/all-of-physics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;All of Physics&#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-1294","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\/1294","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=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}