{"id":3921791,"date":"2025-09-08T13:05:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/our-understanding-of-lightning-has-been-driven-by-fear-and-shaped-by-curiosity\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T13:05:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:05:03","slug":"our-understanding-of-lightning-has-been-driven-by-fear-and-shaped-by-curiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/our-understanding-of-lightning-has-been-driven-by-fear-and-shaped-by-curiosity\/","title":{"rendered":"Our understanding of lightning has been driven by fear and shaped by curiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Playwright Tom Stoppard, in &#8220;Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,&#8221; provides one of the best definitions of science: &#8220;The scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defense against the pure emotion of fear.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-09-lightning-driven-curiosity.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playwright Tom Stoppard, in &#8220;Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,&#8221; provides one of the best definitions of science: &#8220;The scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defense against the pure emotion of fear.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3921791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3921791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3921791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3921791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3921791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}