{"id":1278,"date":"2026-05-14T11:12:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T10:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:01:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:01:25","slug":"1278","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/2026\/05\/1278\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Random Universe<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-026-02865-y\">reviewed in <em>Nature Astronomy<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The book works. It takes you from the reliability of London buses to the Big Bang in a circuitous but continuous path, leaving you with an accomplished feeling of having slotted parts of the Universe and parts of our understanding into their logical places.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Random Universe reviewed in Nature Astronomy: The book works. It takes you from the reliability of London buses to the Big Bang in a circuitous but continuous path, leaving you with an accomplished feeling of having slotted parts of the Universe and parts of our understanding into their logical places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}