{"id":2289,"date":"2005-01-11T13:49:09","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T18:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2022-10-09T15:06:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T19:06:04","slug":"the-choppy-spacetime-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2289","title":{"rendered":"The Choppy Spacetime Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The language of science, at its most awe-some, AND its most practical, verges on poetry, mysticism. In order to talk about what is going on out in space, one MUST speak in terms almost poetic.<\/p>\n

Here’s the article.<\/a><\/p>\n

Favorite quote from the “scientists”:<\/p>\n

“Gas whipping around the black hole has no choice but to ride that wave of choppy spacetime sea that distorts everything falling into the black hole.”<\/p>\n

Ride that wave of choppy spacetime sea<\/i>.<\/p>\n

God. Beautiful. Language like that is trying to describe reality, trying to describe what is actually happening out there … and yet, for me, it tips over the edge into some kind of poetic metaphor. I love that. All the good science writers have that tone. It’s what hooks ME in, that language, the wondrous language, because I can’t understand the math.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The language of science, at its most awe-some, AND its most practical, verges on poetry, mysticism. In order to talk about what is going on out in space, one MUST speak in terms almost poetic. Here’s the article. Favorite quote … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[181],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178185,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions\/178185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}