{"id":52,"date":"2007-09-14T22:51:52","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T03:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elegans.uky.edu\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2007-09-14T22:51:52","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T03:51:52","slug":"movie-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Movie physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the beginning of the movie &#8220;Cellular&#8221;.  Kim Basinger gets kidnapped, taken to a house, and tossed on the floor&#8211;on a conveniently placed rug.  The kidnapper then gets a big sledge hammer and swings at an old-style Bell phone.  Phones are important in this movie, huh?  The unbelievable thing is that the phone shatters into smithereens!  A Bell phone come apart like that?  Not in this universe!  <\/p>\n<p>A few minutes later, the director decides we didn&#8217;t just see the phone shatter.  It  turns out it was only slightly wounded and Kim makes a call.  Now that&#8217;s a Bell phone! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the beginning of the movie &#8220;Cellular&#8221;. Kim Basinger gets kidnapped, taken to a house, and tossed on the floor&#8211;on a conveniently placed rug. The kidnapper then gets a big sledge hammer and swings at an old-style Bell phone. Phones are important in this movie, huh? The unbelievable thing is that the phone shatters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}