{"id":940,"date":"2005-06-09T17:15:09","date_gmt":"2005-06-10T00:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=940"},"modified":"2005-06-09T17:15:09","modified_gmt":"2005-06-10T00:15:09","slug":"the-rest-of-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/06\/09\/the-rest-of-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rest of the Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rumors (<a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/principles\/2005_05_29_principlearchive.php#111737220233615216\">Uncertain Principles<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/motls.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/deviations-from-newtons-law-seen.html\">Lubo\u0161 Motl&#8217;s reference frame<\/a>) are that the Eovtos experiment here at the University of Washington may have observed a deviation from Newton&#8217;s laws at small lengths (less than one hundred microns.)  Of course this would be huge news, and their desire to take it slow is certainly understandable and, I might add, is good science.<br \/>\nI remember driving down the road one day and I heard the radio man Paul Harvey report that a group of physicists had discovered room temperature superconductors.  I recall that I got so excited that I actually started crying.  Such a discovery would presumably change the world!  Alas, it turned out to not be true.  Either Paul Harvey had made it up or the group&#8217;s announcement was not correct.  And now you know, &#8220;the rest of the story.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumors (Uncertain Principles and Lubo\u0161 Motl&#8217;s reference frame) are that the Eovtos experiment here at the University of Washington may have observed a deviation from Newton&#8217;s laws at small lengths (less than one hundred microns.) Of course this would be huge news, and their desire to take it slow is certainly understandable and, I might &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/06\/09\/the-rest-of-the-story\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Rest of the Story&#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":[53,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","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\/940","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=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}