{"id":1480,"date":"2007-04-02T10:37:52","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T17:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2007-04-02T10:37:52","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T17:37:52","slug":"taxing-fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/04\/02\/taxing-fools\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxing Fools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time of year always reminds me of the non-Abelian Aharonov-Bohm effect.<br \/>\nWhah?  Well it&#8217;s due entirely to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theory.caltech.edu\/people\/preskill\/talks\/aharonov.ps\">this colloquium on the non-abelian Aharonov-Bohm effect<\/a> given by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theory.caltech.edu\/~preskill\/\">John Preskill<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThis talk was originally schedule for April 1st.  I was delighted.  I&#8217;ve always wanted to give a talk on April 1st, and this subject seemed like the ideal one for that date.  Then, in a stunning reversal, the talk was rescheduled for April 15th.  I was shocked.  Suddently, instead of speaking on the funniest day of the year, I was speaking on the least funny day of the year.  I know that everyone is in a somber mood on April 15th, so I have decided that there will be no jokes in this talk.  I&#8217;m sorry.  I hope that you don&#8217;t find the talk to be overly taxing.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Classic!  The closest I&#8217;ve ever come to giving a talk on a holiday was when I gave a talk here at UW on Valentines day.  I&#8217;m still disappointed that I didn&#8217;t have enough jokes about the day.  I&#8217;m sure my audience would have loved it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time of year always reminds me of the non-Abelian Aharonov-Bohm effect. Whah? Well it&#8217;s due entirely to this colloquium on the non-abelian Aharonov-Bohm effect given by John Preskill: This talk was originally schedule for April 1st. I was delighted. I&#8217;ve always wanted to give a talk on April 1st, and this subject seemed like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/04\/02\/taxing-fools\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Taxing Fools&#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":[29,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fragment","category-self-meet-center-center-meet-self"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","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=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}