{"id":250,"date":"2010-08-06T17:57:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T16:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=250"},"modified":"2010-08-06T17:57:53","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T16:57:53","slug":"just-like-some-seminars-i-go-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2010\/08\/06\/just-like-some-seminars-i-go-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Just like some seminars I go to ..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Browsing the New York Times, as you do, led me to a <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1001.0785\">paper<\/a> \u201c<em>On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton<\/em>\" by Erik Verlinde, a string theorist and professor of physics at the University of Amsterdam, in which he argues that gravity is a consequence of the laws of thermodynamics. \u00a0Inevitably, this is controversial, with another string theorist noting: \"Some people have said it can\u2019t be right, others that it\u2019s right and we already knew it \u2013 some that it\u2019s right and profound \u2013 and some more that it's right but trivial\" which about covers the bases, and reminds me about some of the ideas that I hear talked about. \u00a0Commenting on a seminar where the paper was presented, the moderator said: \"The end result was that everyone else didn\u2019t understand it, including people who initially thought that it did make some sense to them.' \u00a0<em>Just<\/em> like some of the seminars I go to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Browsing the New York Times, as you do, led me to a paper \u201cOn the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton\" by Erik Verlinde, a string theorist and professor of physics at the University of Amsterdam, in which...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}