{"id":1741,"date":"2007-12-04T14:16:31","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T21:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2007-12-04T14:16:31","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T21:16:31","slug":"happenings-in-the-quantum-world-dec-4-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/12\/04\/happenings-in-the-quantum-world-dec-4-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Happenings in the Quantum World: Dec. 4, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SQuInT program and deadline, Rush Limbaugh on quantum cosmology, and the parallel worlds of Hugh Everett&#8217;s son<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 2008 SQuInT conference deadline for registration is fast approaching, December 12.  The program is now available online as well.  Looks like a good lineup.<\/li>\n<li>Rush Limbaugh talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/11\/26\/global_warming_quantum_physics2\">quantum cosmology<\/a>.  He is completely wrong that man doesn&#8217;t affect his environment, less wrong that we are insignificant in the universe, and you can imagine that since the paper he is talking about has been filtered through at least one other media organization prior to reaching his hands, the content of the discussion isn&#8217;t too high.<\/li>\n<li> Did anyone catch the BBC<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/7113098.stm\">documentary<\/a> discussed here?  I&#8217;ve always been interest in how little I know about the personal story of Hugh Everett.  The usual joke is that since he disappear from physics history, the Ocaam&#8217;s razor explanation is certainly that he jumped to a parallel universe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SQuInT program and deadline, Rush Limbaugh on quantum cosmology, and the parallel worlds of Hugh Everett&#8217;s son<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":"","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":[63,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum","category-quantum-computing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","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=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}