{"id":821,"date":"2005-01-29T18:33:52","date_gmt":"2005-01-30T01:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=821"},"modified":"2005-01-29T18:33:52","modified_gmt":"2005-01-30T01:33:52","slug":"the-happy-physicist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/01\/29\/the-happy-physicist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Happy Physicist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many have pictures of Einstein on their wall.  And rightly so, for the patent clerk who sparked revolutions.  Since I&#8217;m in quantum computing, I think Einstein might not be the most appropriate person to have on my wall.  Indeed, to hear the historians, Einstein wouldn&#8217;t even believe in the basics of what I work on (somehow I really doubt this.)  So instead, I think I should put a picture of John Bell on my wall.  I went looking for a suitable picture and found <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/\">this article<\/a>, with a very happy John Bell:<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-content\/johnbell.JPG?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"John Bell - Happy Physicist\" \/><br \/>\nLook how happy he is!  Yes, Gloria, being a physicist is glorious. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many have pictures of Einstein on their wall. And rightly so, for the patent clerk who sparked revolutions. Since I&#8217;m in quantum computing, I think Einstein might not be the most appropriate person to have on my wall. Indeed, to hear the historians, Einstein wouldn&#8217;t even believe in the basics of what I work on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/01\/29\/the-happy-physicist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Happy Physicist&#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":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","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=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}