{"id":13890,"date":"2026-01-28T02:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13890"},"modified":"2026-01-28T02:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:32:06","slug":"a-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13890","title":{"rendered":"A letter"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, my friend John Moffat called me. He told me about a letter that he received the day before. An old school letter, paper-in-an-envelope, brought by the mailman.<\/p>\n

A letter from the Prime Minister of Canada.<\/p>\n

In these sad days, we have to question the authenticity of everything but no, this letter was the real thing: an actual letter, on embossed letterhead, with a handwritten signature.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know what prompted the Prime Minister’s office to send this letter to John. I refuse to speculate.<\/p>\n

The letter itself stands on its own. It is a very dignified recognition of John’s amazing (and amazingly long!) career as a physicist, and a true note of appreciation that he decided to live his incredible life in this great country, Canada.<\/p>\n

Congratulations, John. Perhaps you deserve more recognition. You definitely deserved this. And keep up the good work. I am rooting for you: perhaps I’ll be there when you celebrate your 100th birthday, still in good health and good spirits, still working on MOG\/STVG, your nonlocal quantum field theory, your complexified manifold proposal and other intriguing ideas!<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day, my friend John Moffat called me. He told me about a letter that he received the day before. An old school letter, paper-in-an-envelope, brought by the mailman. A letter from the Prime Minister of Canada. In these sad days, we have to question the authenticity of everything but no, this letter was […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-personal","category-physics","category-22-id","category-35-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13893,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13890\/revisions\/13893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}