{"id":2159,"date":"2008-12-10T16:13:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T23:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2008-12-10T16:13:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T23:13:22","slug":"physics-based-license-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/12\/10\/physics-based-license-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics Based License Plates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsandphysicists.blogspot.com\/\">Zz<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.symmetrymagazine.org\/\">link<\/a> to Symmetry Breaking&#8217;s list of physics based license plates.<br \/>\nSweet I&#8217;ll have to submit my old California plates:<br \/>\nIf there is one thing I will regret in life it is that I missed one of the most &#8220;terrifiq&#8221; opportunities of all time.  While I was at the Santa Fe Institute, I had my QUBITS plates and sometimes would park beside Murray Gell-Mann&#8217;s car which had a QUARKS license place.  At one point Ben Schumacher, who invented the word &#8220;qubit&#8221;, visited the Santa Fe Institute.  Damnit that was my opportunity to get a picture of two people who invented words in the dictionary starting with a &#8220;q&#8221; beside two cars with those words as license plates!  Drats, that would have been priceless.<br \/>\n(For quantum computing people make sure you ask Andrew Landahl what his license plate is next time you see him.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Zz, a link to Symmetry Breaking&#8217;s list of physics based license plates. Sweet I&#8217;ll have to submit my old California plates: If there is one thing I will regret in life it is that I missed one of the most &#8220;terrifiq&#8221; opportunities of all time. While I was at the Santa Fe Institute, I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/12\/10\/physics-based-license-plates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Physics Based License Plates&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[65,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-computing","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\/2159","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=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}