{"id":4068,"date":"2011-10-19T18:37:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T22:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=4068"},"modified":"2011-10-25T20:59:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T00:59:21","slug":"this-weeks-hype-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=4068","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8217;s Hype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple people have written to tell me about the new BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b016bys2\">Faster Than the Speed of Light?<\/a> documentary on superluminal neutrinos which evidently featured trademark hype from string theorist Mike Duff about how string theory could explain this.  For better or worse, I don&#8217;t think I have access to the show from the US, although I&#8217;m sure that sooner or later it will arrive on our shores.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Philip Gibbs has more <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vixra.org\/2011\/10\/20\/bbc-faster-than-the-speed-of-light\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  The BBC program is now on Youtube, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=boOKTFM6eG8 \">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple people have written to tell me about the new BBC Faster Than the Speed of Light? documentary on superluminal neutrinos which evidently featured trademark hype from string theorist Mike Duff about how string theory could explain this. For &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=4068\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-weeks-hype"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4068"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4095,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions\/4095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}