{"id":226,"date":"2010-06-12T09:27:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T14:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2010\/06\/12\/unweaving-the-rainbow\/"},"modified":"2010-06-12T09:27:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T14:27:15","slug":"unweaving-the-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2010\/06\/12\/unweaving-the-rainbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Unweaving the rainbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like this <a href=\"http:\/\/abstrusegoose.com\/275\">Abstruse Goose comic<\/a> about how scientists view the world:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abstrusegoose.com\/275\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/files\/2010\/06\/all_i_see_are_equations.PNG\" alt=\"Abstruse Goose 275\" height=\"926\" width=\"583\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author&#8217;s commentary on this is &#8220;Poor bastards.&#8221;\u00a0 Presumably he&#8217;s being ironic, but lots of people do feel this way.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m with Feynman:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have a friend who&#8217;s an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don&#8217;t agree with. He&#8217;ll hold up a flower and say, &#8220;Look how beautiful it is,&#8221; and I&#8217;ll agree. But then he&#8217;ll say, &#8220;I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull.&#8221; I think he&#8217;s kind of nutty &#8230;. There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don&#8217;t understand how it subtracts.<\/p>\n<p>(From <em>What Do You Care What Other People Think?<\/em>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like this Abstruse Goose comic about how scientists view the world: The author&#8217;s commentary on this is &#8220;Poor bastards.&#8221;\u00a0 Presumably he&#8217;s being ironic, but lots of people do feel this way.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m with Feynman: I have a friend who&#8217;s an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don&#8217;t agree with. He&#8217;ll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2010\/06\/12\/unweaving-the-rainbow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unweaving the rainbow<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}