{"id":4133,"date":"2011-11-07T14:59:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T19:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=4133"},"modified":"2011-11-07T14:59:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T19:59:11","slug":"this-weeks-hype-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=4133","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8217;s Hype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple people have pointed me to an article at <em>New Scientist<\/em> that requires another edition of This Week&#8217;s Hype.   According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg21228374.500-nuclear-clock-could-steal-atomic-clocks-crown.html\">Nuclear clock could steal atomic clock&#8217;s crown<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Such clocks could shed light on string theory. The frequency of the jumps in a nuclear clock will depend on the strong nuclear force, while the jumps by electrons in atomic clocks depend on a different fundamental force. So together they could reveal if the relative strength of the forces changes, as string theory has it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The amusing thing about the string theory &#8220;prediction&#8221; that relative strengths of forces change over time is that many string theorists promote as a &#8220;prediction&#8221; exactly the opposite:  according to this argument, change in these strengths would imply large changes in the vacuum energy, which we don&#8217;t see, so a prediction of the landscape is constancy.  See for example <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=151\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple people have pointed me to an article at New Scientist that requires another edition of This Week&#8217;s Hype. According to Nuclear clock could steal atomic clock&#8217;s crown: Such clocks could shed light on string theory. The frequency of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=4133\">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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4133","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\/4133","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=4133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4135,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions\/4135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}