{"id":608,"date":"2002-01-04T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-04T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=608"},"modified":"2002-01-04T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-04T21:08:00","slug":"ekpyrosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/01\/04\/17\/08\/ekpyrosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekpyrosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

My new word for today: Ekpyrosis<\/a>. Cosmologists and theoretical physicists love making up<\/a> bizarre new bestiaries of particles and forces, so it figures they like making up words as well. That is, when they are not agonizing about the imminent destruction of everything<\/a>. But sometimes there’s a silver lining<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My new word for today: Ekpyrosis. Cosmologists and theoretical physicists love making up bizarre new bestiaries of particles and forces, so it figures they like making up words as well. That is, when they...<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t