{"id":41799,"date":"2015-12-08T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=41799"},"modified":"2015-11-17T16:35:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T21:35:52","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-how-broad-is-the-side-of-a-barn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2015\/uncommon-knowledge-how-broad-is-the-side-of-a-barn\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: How Broad is the Side of a Barn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/barn-wood-usa-side-table?source=blog_uk120615\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41801\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/uk_40698.jpg\" alt=\"Barn Wood USA Side Table | UncommonGoods\" width=\"620\" height=\"620\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the latest discovery in particle physics? The fact that physicists actually have a whimsical sense of humor. For one thing, the vocabulary of this esoteric field includes the quirky term \u201cbarn.\u201d It\u2019s a minuscule unit of measurement based on the cross-sectional area of a uranium nucleus and describes the tiny target for colliding nuclear particles. But why \u201cbarn\u201d for something so\u2026much smaller than a barn? It\u2019s derived from the old saying that someone \u201ccouldn\u2019t hit the broad side of a barn,\u201d riffing on the difficulty of shooting charged particles at the world&#8217;s smallest bullseye. \u00a0Bonus fact: there are two minor measurement terms related to &#8220;barn&#8221; which follow the farm building metaphor\u2014an \u201couthouse,\u201d and a \u201cshed.\u201d Could be \u201cchicken coop\u201d was already taken by the guys over in nanotechnology.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Barn Wood USA Side Table | UncommonGoods\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/barn-wood-usa-side-table?source=blog_uk120615\" target=\"_blank\">Barn Wood USA Side Table<\/a> | $198<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s weirder than trying to smash atoms into quarks? Naming the target after a big, red farm building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":41811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[484,813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41812,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41799\/revisions\/41812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}