{"id":2078,"date":"2009-12-13T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-week-on-%e2%80%9cin-retrospect-not-the-best-comparison%e2%80%9d-cosmic-variance\/"},"modified":"2009-12-13T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T19:53:00","slug":"the-week-on-%e2%80%9cin-retrospect-not-the-best-comparison%e2%80%9d-cosmic-variance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-week-on-%e2%80%9cin-retrospect-not-the-best-comparison%e2%80%9d-cosmic-variance.php","title":{"rendered":"The Week on \u201cIn Retrospect, Not the Best Comparison\u201d | Cosmic Variance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the opening sentences of Chapter Five of my <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/eternitytohere.com\/\">book<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>When most people hear &ldquo;scientist,&rdquo; they think &ldquo;Einstein.&rdquo; Albert Einstein is an iconic figure; not many theoretical physicists attain a level of celebrity where their likeness appears regularly on T-shirts. But it&rsquo;s an intimidating, distant celebrity. Unlike, say, Tiger Woods, the precise achievements for which Einstein is actually famous <em>for<\/em> remain somewhat mysterious to many people who would easily recognize his name.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>And now we can add, &ldquo;and some achievements should really <em>stay<\/em> mysterious, thanks just the same.&rdquo;<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e2bbf_aEJ37mLSd2k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the opening sentences of Chapter Five of my book:When most people hear &ldquo;scientist,&rdquo; they think &ldquo;Einstein.&rdquo; Albert Einstein is an iconic figure; not many theoretical physicists attain a level of celebrity where their likeness appears regularly on T-shirts. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-week-on-%e2%80%9cin-retrospect-not-the-best-comparison%e2%80%9d-cosmic-variance.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}