{"id":246,"date":"2004-12-12T08:59:11","date_gmt":"2004-12-12T08:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/246"},"modified":"2004-12-12T08:59:11","modified_gmt":"2004-12-12T08:59:11","slug":"walter-lewins-halo-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/246","title":{"rendered":"Walter Lewin&#8217;s halo revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap040913.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" STYLE=\"padding:  5px 5px 5px 5px\" alt=\"Walter Lewin's ring picture\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/246\/ring_lewin.gif\" \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>A couple months ago, MIT physics professor <a href=\"http:\/\/caes.mit.edu\/people\/lewin.html\">Walter Lewin<\/a> posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap040913.html\">photo<\/a> of an MIT construction site to the Astronomy Picture of the Day webpage with the challenge &#8220;explain the bright ring of colors.&#8221; Now after answering about 3000 answers (only 5 of them fully correct), Walter Lewin <a href=\"http:\/\/space.mit.edu\/~lewin\/apod\/\">explains all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Note also that 75 of Prof. Lewin&#8217;s lectures are available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/ocw.mit.edu\/OcwWeb\/\">MIT&#8217;s OpenCourseWare site<\/a>, plus four more at <a href=\"http:\/\/mitworld.mit.edu\/\">MIT World<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap040913.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" STYLE=\"padding:  5px 5px 5px 5px\" alt=\"Walter Lewin's ring picture\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/246\/ring_lewin.gif\" \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>A couple months ago, MIT physics professor <a href=\"http:\/\/caes.mit.edu\/people\/lewin.html\">Walter Lewin<\/a> posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap040913.html\">photo<\/a> of an MIT construction site to the Astronomy Picture of the Day webpage with the challenge &#8220;explain the bright ring of colors.&#8221; Now after answering about 3000 answers (only 5 of them fully correct), Walter Lewin <a href=\"http:\/\/space.mit.edu\/~lewin\/apod\/\">explains all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Note also that 75 of Prof. Lewin&#8217;s lectures are available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/ocw.mit.edu\/OcwWeb\/\">MIT&#8217;s OpenCourseWare site<\/a>, plus four more at <a href=\"http:\/\/mitworld.mit.edu\/\">MIT World<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}