{"id":7845,"date":"2016-06-06T19:19:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T23:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7845"},"modified":"2016-06-06T19:19:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T23:19:23","slug":"mog-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7845","title":{"rendered":"MOG in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafoordprize.se\/\">Crafoord prize<\/a> is a prestigious prize administered by the Swedish academy of sciences. Not as prestigious as the Nobel, it is still a highly respectable prize that comes with a respectable sum of money.<\/p>\n<p>This way, one of the recipients was Roy Kerr, known for his solution of rotating black holes.<\/p>\n<p>Several people were invited to give talks, including Roy Kerr&#8217;s colleague David Wiltshire. Wiltshire began his talk by mentioning the role of a young John Moffat in inspiring Kerr to study the rotating solution, but he also acknowledged Moffat&#8217;s more recent work, in which I also played a role, his Scalar-Tensor-Vector (STVG) modified gravity theory, aka MOG.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;width:95%;padding-bottom:57%; padding-left: 1.25%;\"><iframe src=\"\/\/csp.screen9.com\/video?a=ss1GhO1sZ8D6dwKrB4iroVpTCrF66NrJYo5600QmeBZ_QEPGrdTsJcqbEpYrefQPkHHA0lTUewz5zR6qV2Ch9dtSc5tNjmBMB0K2ZANbf1fjYy_POTdWmA\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute\" frameborder=\"0\" mozallowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>All too often, MOG is ignored, dismissed or confused with other theories. It was very good to see a rare, notable exception from that rule.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7845' 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>The Crafoord prize is a prestigious prize administered by the Swedish academy of sciences. Not as prestigious as the Nobel, it is still a highly respectable prize that comes with a respectable sum of money. This way, one of the recipients was Roy Kerr, known for his solution of rotating black holes. Several people were <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7845' 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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","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\/7845","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=7845"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7852,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7845\/revisions\/7852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}