{"id":1365,"date":"2008-10-18T22:20:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T22:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/?page_id=1365"},"modified":"2008-10-18T22:20:33","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T22:20:33","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/?page_id=1365","title":{"rendered":"About Jarrod Hart&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_149\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149\" title=\"Jarrod Hart 2008\" src=\"http:\/\/jarrodhart.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/img00521.jpg\" alt=\"Jarrod, summer 2008\" width=\"480\" height=\"384\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jarrod, summer 2008<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I am a scientist working in <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through;\">Cornwall<\/span> <em>California, no, it&#8217;s back to Cornwall<\/em>. My interests are in mainly the environment, cosmology and physics (yes, groan away), but also general science, science communication, education and skepticism.<\/p>\n<p>I am a chemical engineer by training, but although I am in many ways a typical engineer (in the worst ways), I am a scientist at heart. When I go to sleep at night, I sit and think about the speed of light, and ponder the distance between two points in space. My wife thinks it&#8217;s odd, but I sleep well.<\/p>\n<p>I have three young children, and live in Truro, in the far\u00a0south west of England.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why do I run this site? Mostly, its a place for me to record my thoughts and theories, and to have them reviewed by others leading to their refinement.<\/p>\n<p>Although I work in an industrial research lab, you won&#8217;t be surprised to hear they don&#8217;t pay me for my opinion on cosmological theories and the like. So you could say I am a closet theorist, one of many, I&#8217;m sure, and I hope to get out of the closet via this site.<\/p>\n<p>So please, if you can see any flaws in my articles, I would really appreciate your comments.<\/p>\n<p>Best wishes,<\/p>\n<p>Jarrod R. Hart<br \/>\nOctober 2008 (updated <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through;\">Mar 2010<\/span> Mar 2012)<br \/>\njarrod.hart[at]btinternet.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a scientist working in Cornwall California, no, it&#8217;s back to Cornwall. My interests are in mainly the environment, cosmology and physics (yes, groan away), but also general science, science communication, education and skepticism. I am a chemical engineer by training, but although I am in many ways a typical engineer (in the worst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}