{"id":2331,"date":"2009-06-01T14:46:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T21:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2009-06-01T14:46:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T21:46:53","slug":"film-reviews-in-nature-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/06\/01\/film-reviews-in-nature-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Reviews in Nature Physics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What in the world is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nphys\/journal\/v5\/n6\/full\/nphys1291.html\">review<\/a> for Star Trek doing in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nphys\/index.html\">Nature Physics<\/a>?  (Thank to reader W for pointing this out.)  I mean, at least the review of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nphys\/journal\/v5\/n6\/full\/nphys1305.html\">Angels and Demons<\/a> has references to physics, but the review of Star Trek, is, well, just a review of Star Trek with no reference physics or science or, well, anything that I could see the audience of Nature Physics relating to.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not saying I don&#8217;t appreciate the review, or the book\/art section of Nature Physics, but doesn&#8217;t this seem a bit out of place. It is too bad, indeed, because the movie does contain time travel, and as <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/05\/14\/rules-for-time-travelers\/\">Cosmic Sean<\/a> demonstrated their is ample fodder for a review of Star Trek that at least pulls in some fun physics.<br \/>\nIn a related note, Nature physics now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nphys\/journal\/v5\/n6\/full\/nphys1305.html\">requires<\/a> a statement of author&#8217;s contributions.  (&#8220;Dave Bacon&#8217;s contribution was to sit around and crack jokes all day while we worked hard and tried not to get distracted.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What in the world is a review for Star Trek doing in Nature Physics? (Thank to reader W for pointing this out.) I mean, at least the review of Angels and Demons has references to physics, but the review of Star Trek, is, well, just a review of Star Trek with no reference physics or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/06\/01\/film-reviews-in-nature-physics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Film Reviews in Nature Physics?&#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":[50,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-the-deep-end","category-scientific-publishing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","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=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}