{"id":31,"date":"2006-01-27T11:27:56","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T19:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otherthings.com\/blog2\/?p=31"},"modified":"2006-01-27T11:27:56","modified_gmt":"2006-01-27T19:27:56","slug":"time-is-an-illusion-and-now-theres-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/time-is-an-illusion-and-now-theres-proof\/","title":{"rendered":"Time is an illusion, and now there&#8217;s proof!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As upstanding American citizens have known for years, time is an illusion created by the <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.venganza.org\/\">Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/a> to keep our minds from getting tied in starchy, noodly knots.  It&#8217;s not real.  And yet, our insitutions, our government, even our children&#8217;s schools insist on perpetuating this heretical fallacy that time exists!<\/p>\n<p>But even the so-called &#8220;experts&#8221; can&#8217;t agree on how to measure the passing of this fictional abstraction.  Is it caused by the wiggling of some speck of fairy dust called an &#8220;atom&#8221;, or the revolution of the sun around the flat, solid Earth?  They just can&#8217;t make up their minds.  <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theweekmagazine.com\/article.aspx?id=1295\">The Week<\/a> has an interesting article about this controversy, which has divided the scientific community, threatening to bring down the very edifice of science itself.  And not a moment too soon!<\/p>\n<p>School boards across the nation should take note.  Why, in this great democracy, do we still have a <i>clock<\/i> in every classroom?  When will this madness stop?<\/p>\n<p>(via <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/01\/27\/the_battle_between_p.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As upstanding American citizens have known for years, time is an illusion created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster to keep our minds from getting tied in starchy, noodly knots. It&#8217;s not real. And yet, our insitutions, our government, even our children&#8217;s schools insist on perpetuating this heretical fallacy that time exists! But even the so-called &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/time-is-an-illusion-and-now-theres-proof\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time is an illusion, and now there&#8217;s proof!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}