{"id":23390,"date":"2019-06-26T01:55:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T17:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=23390"},"modified":"2019-07-01T01:21:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T17:21:33","slug":"razor-6-newtons-flaming-laser-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2019\/06\/razor-6-newtons-flaming-laser-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"Razor #6: Newton&#8217;s Flaming Laser Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23391\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/laser.jpg?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/laser.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/laser.jpg?resize=96%2C96&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/laser.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/laser.jpg?resize=38%2C38&amp;ssl=1 38w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/laser.jpg?resize=186%2C186&amp;ssl=1 186w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/laser.jpg?resize=184%2C184&amp;ssl=1 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Newton&#8217;s Flaming Laser Sword:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If something cannot be settled<br \/>\nby experiment or observation,<br \/>\nthen it is not worthy of debate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thought:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Life is too short to debate<br \/>\nin the first place,<br \/>\non what is unverifiable<br \/>\nat the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(In philosophy, a razor is a principle or rule of thumb that allows one to eliminate (&#8216;shave off&#8217;) unlikely explanations for a phenomenon, or avoid unnecessary actions.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newton&#8217;s Flaming Laser Sword: If something cannot be settled by experiment or observation, then it is not worthy of debate&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-truth","wpcat-44-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}