{"id":413839,"date":"2017-12-07T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=77f9d21edb209155d49401eb1927e63e"},"modified":"2017-12-07T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:10:00","slug":"strange-parallels-alternative-histories-in-physics-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=413839","title":{"rendered":"Strange Parallels: Alternative Histories In Physics And Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/12\/07\/istock-664390112_wide-4552171a9b81644af81fbaf313149ec858557ef2.jpg?s=600' alt='An artist's rendering of ripples in space-time.'\/><\/p>\n<p>Ideas of parallel universes and alternative histories, once confined to mere rumination about lost opportunities and fictional scenarios, are now a part of science, says guest writer Paul Halpern.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Getty Images\/iStockphoto)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=569131847' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ideas of parallel universes and alternative histories, once confined to mere rumination about lost opportunities and fictional scenarios, are now a part of science, says guest writer Paul Halpern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2469,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413840,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413839\/revisions\/413840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}