{"id":149,"date":"2008-11-19T19:46:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T19:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2008-11-19T19:46:31","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T19:46:31","slug":"hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Scientist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn15121\">asked<\/a> what gifts three time-traveling visitors from the future should bring, if they popped up, say, when the LHC is finally turned on and starts operating. I could not resist the urge to reply. I titled my response &#8220;Hope&#8221; and wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background:none\"><p>\nI would think that three authentic-from-the-future photographs brought by those three visitors would do nicely.<\/p>\n<p>One should bear the image of a happy human in all his imperfect homo sapiens glory, such as a grinning teenager with a pimple on his nose, and no robots, genetically engineered trans-humans, or grey blobs in the background.<\/p>\n<p>The second should show the image of the Earth from space: blue, white, and green in all the right places, pearls of bright cities on the night hemisphere, and nice, not too large, not too small ice caps where those should be.<\/p>\n<p>The third should show another human standing in front of a window on a spaceship. Behind the human, through the window, we see the Milky Way galaxy\u2026 from the outside.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=149' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Scientist asked what gifts three time-traveling visitors from the future should bring, if they popped up, say, when the LHC is finally turned on and starts operating. I could not resist the urge to reply. I titled my response &#8220;Hope&#8221; and wrote: I would think that three authentic-from-the-future photographs brought by those three visitors <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=149' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","category-18-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\/149","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=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}