{"id":3798,"date":"2022-02-10T04:11:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T04:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2022-02-10T04:14:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T04:14:07","slug":"lawrence-krauss-and-much-ado-about-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2022\/02\/10\/lawrence-krauss-and-much-ado-about-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Krauss and Much Ado About Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"230\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/nothing.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/nothing.jpg 230w, https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/nothing-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 85vw, 230px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\nLawrence Krauss published a book titled <i>A Universe from Nothing.<\/i>  His use of the word &#8220;nothing&#8221; is no less ridiculous than the use of the word &#8220;nobody&#8221; in the following passage from Lewis Carroll&#8217;s <i>Through the Looking Glass<\/i>:\n<\/p><p><blockquote>\nKing: &#8220;Just look along the road, and tell me if you can see either of them.&#8221;\n<p><\/p><p> Alice: &#8220;I see nobody on the road,&#8221; said Alice.\n<\/p><p> King: &#8220;I only wish I had such eyes,&#8221; the King remarked in a fretful tone. &#8220;To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance, too! Why, it&#8217;s as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!&#8221;\n<\/blockquote><\/p><p> \nAnd the following reception by Stephen Colbert is quite justified.\n<\/p><p> \n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tXK5avcaJiY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Krauss published a book titled A Universe from Nothing. His use of the word &#8220;nothing&#8221; is no less ridiculous than the use of the word &#8220;nobody&#8221; in the following passage from Lewis Carroll&#8217;s Through the Looking Glass: King: &#8220;Just look along the road, and tell me if you can see either of them.&#8221; Alice: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2022\/02\/10\/lawrence-krauss-and-much-ado-about-nothing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lawrence Krauss and Much Ado About Nothing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguistic-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3802,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions\/3802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}