{"id":17504,"date":"2011-12-13T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=17504"},"modified":"2011-12-13T01:25:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T07:25:38","slug":"weve-been-studying-the-elephants-tail-an-animated-comic-explains-the-basics-of-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2011\/12\/weve-been-studying-the-elephants-tail-an-animated-comic-explains-the-basics-of-dark-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We&#8217;ve Been Studying the Elephant&#8217;s Tail,&#8221; an Animated Comic Explains the Basics of Dark Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/22956103?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ff9933\" width=\"600\" height=\"783\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<p>Did you ever think that you needed a layperson&#8217;s explanation on what is dark matter? We have. On many occasions. It&#8217;s strange but the more we read about it, the more it confounds and fascinates us. No wonder scientists are obsessed over it. <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/phdcomics\" class=\"external external_icon\">PHD Comics<\/a> broke down the basics of dark matter and drew it up comics style.<\/p>\n<p>Comics save the world again.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, in other universal news, we know <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/cern\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">CERN<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quantumdiaries.org\/2011\/12\/12\/getting-closer-to-finding-out-if-the-higgs-exists\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">announcement<\/a> on whether we&#8217;ve found the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/warrenellis\/status\/146265932002631682\" class=\"external external_icon\">Higgs Boson<\/a> particle is coming later today. Keep an eye on our <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/groonk\" class=\"external external_icon\">Twitter <\/a>feed(look right) or <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/101740187247226037779\/posts\" class=\"external external_icon\">G+<\/a> for an immediate reaction. A thought out response should be appearing around these parts later on.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ScreenShot391.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"We know dark matter is there by its effect on other objects.\" width=\"444\" height=\"571\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ScreenShot391.png 444w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ScreenShot391-233x300.png 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/> <\/div>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/22956103\" class=\"external external_icon\">PHD Comics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you ever think that you needed a layperson&#8217;s explanation on what is dark matter? We have. On many occasions. It&#8217;s strange but the more we read about it, the more it confounds and fascinates us. No wonder scientists are obsessed over it. PHD Comics broke down the basics of dark matter and drew it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,9],"tags":[98,290,1088,288,1235,1674,1087,4928,1722,1843,3881],"class_list":["post-17504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-science","tag-animation","tag-cern","tag-comics-will-save-us","tag-dark-matter","tag-hand-drawn","tag-higgs-boson","tag-live-for-science-die-for-science","tag-science","tag-science-it-works-bitches","tag-science-works-bitches","tag-you-got-learned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17504"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17509,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17504\/revisions\/17509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}