{"id":10438,"date":"2010-04-24T06:03:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T11:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10438"},"modified":"2010-03-30T20:04:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T01:04:06","slug":"king-david-the-shortest-interval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10438","title":{"rendered":"King, David &#8211; The Shortest Interval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweaterthieves.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/shortest1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"shortest1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/shortest1.jpg\" alt=\"shortest1\" width=\"293\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Shortest Interval <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?page_id=3417&amp;category=1&amp;product_id=422\">Now Available<\/a>!\u00c2\u00a0 $3<\/p>\n<p>One of the most fascinating scientific unknowns in our history is, to me, what happened between the instant of the Big Bang and the point when everything started rapidly expanding.\u00c2\u00a0 David tackles that idea in this fantastic comic, although I should point out his disclaimer at the back of the book: &#8220;The author is not a scientist and does not understand physics or anything.\u00c2\u00a0 Use this comic book as an academic source at your own risk.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 I also feel obligated to point out to any functioning adult who still believes the Earth (and the universe) is 6000 years old to please sit quietly while the grown-ups discuss a scientific theory.\u00c2\u00a0 So what happened?\u00c2\u00a0 David says that this interval was 10 to the 34th power seconds long (if I&#8217;m even reading that right, which should tell everybody all they need to know about my grasp of science), and proceeds to give a number of theories as to what might have happened during that time.\u00c2\u00a0 I picked my favorite for the sample.\u00c2\u00a0 As this is a tiny thing and I have no interest in ruining any of the other theories for readers, I&#8217;ll just say that he does bring more than a little bit of science to this as well as explaining who the period is named after.\u00c2\u00a0 Making science funny can also be a tricky thing, but he pulled it off beautifully.\u00c2\u00a0 This is well worth checking out if you&#8217;re at all curious about that undefined period of existence and how everything came into being.\u00c2\u00a0 And who isn&#8217;t curious about that?\u00c2\u00a0 $3<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/shortest2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"shortest2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/shortest2.jpg\" alt=\"shortest2\" width=\"382\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website The Shortest Interval Now Available!\u00c2\u00a0 $3 One of the most fascinating scientific unknowns in our history is, to me, what happened between the instant of the Big Bang and the point when everything started rapidly expanding.\u00c2\u00a0 David tackles that idea in this fantastic comic, although I should point out his disclaimer at the back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2993,1437],"class_list":["post-10438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-david-king","tag-the-shortest-interval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10445,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10438\/revisions\/10445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}