{"id":668,"date":"2004-08-04T21:19:49","date_gmt":"2004-08-05T04:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=668"},"modified":"2004-08-04T21:19:49","modified_gmt":"2004-08-05T04:19:49","slug":"baez-decrypts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2004\/08\/04\/baez-decrypts\/","title":{"rendered":"Baez Decrypts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Baez&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/math.ucr.edu\/home\/baez\/week207.html\">description<\/a> of Hawking&#8217;s talk at GR17 is the best scientific commentary on the talk I&#8217;ve come across.  It&#8217;s a notch above all of these descriptions I&#8217;ve read which are of the form: I don&#8217;t like Euclidean quantum gravity, but I do know [insert other theory of quantum gravity here], and we already knew [insert claim here].  Which is fine for learning about [insert claim here] but doesn&#8217;t really tell me anything about what Hawking was trying to say!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Baez&#8217;s description of Hawking&#8217;s talk at GR17 is the best scientific commentary on the talk I&#8217;ve come across. It&#8217;s a notch above all of these descriptions I&#8217;ve read which are of the form: I don&#8217;t like Euclidean quantum gravity, but I do know [insert other theory of quantum gravity here], and we already knew &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2004\/08\/04\/baez-decrypts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Baez Decrypts&#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":[53,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","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=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}