{"id":19733,"date":"2015-03-08T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T14:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19733"},"modified":"2015-03-08T10:23:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T14:23:26","slug":"dont-believe-the-light-supernova-in-einstein-cross-is-a-cosmic-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/03\/08\/dont-believe-the-light-supernova-in-einstein-cross-is-a-cosmic-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t believe the light: Supernova in &#8216;Einstein Cross&#8217; is a cosmic trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Los Angeles Times<\/em> has the story <a title=\"The LA Times story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science\/sciencenow\/la-sci-sn-supernova-four-way-einstein-cross-gravitational-lens-galaxy-cluster-20150305-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Don&#8217;t believe the light: Supernova in &#8216;Einstein Cross&#8217; is a cosmic trick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An international team has discovered four separate images of the same distant supernova arranged in the shape of a cross \u2014 and this unusual trick of the light could help scientists test the structure of the cosmos. They reported their find in Friday&#8217;s edition of the journal Science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Every time I read a story that demonstrates some non-intuitive phenomenon of physics, I think of all those people who are arguing for biblical interpretations of the universe, let alone classical physical interpretations.\u00a0 They seem to have no idea how many generations of physics that they are behind in what they think they understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Times has the story Don&#8217;t believe the light: Supernova in &#8216;Einstein Cross&#8217; is a cosmic trick. An international team has discovered four separate images of the same distant supernova arranged in the shape of a cross \u2014 and this unusual trick of the light could help scientists test the structure of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19735,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19733\/revisions\/19735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}