{"id":2281,"date":"2017-03-26T04:02:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T12:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=2281"},"modified":"2017-03-26T04:31:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T12:31:47","slug":"outsider-science-in-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/news\/outsider-science-in-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Outsider Science in the Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <em>Washington Post,\u00a0<\/em>IFF director Margaret Wertheim has an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/whose-scientific-theories-are-permitted-into-the-mainstream\/2017\/03\/17\/a715293c-0725-11e7-93dc-00f9bdd74ed1_story.html?utm_term=.073227732fa9#comments\">essay<\/a>\u00a0on outsider physics, inspired by Ren Weschler\u2019s enchanting new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/waves-passing-in-the-night-9781632867209\/\">book<\/a> <em>Waves Passing in the Night\u00a0<\/em>about Walter Murch, the legendary Hollywood film-and-sound editor who has his own cosmological theory. Here she draws parallels with outsider art.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PhysFrng-Stvns-31-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2292\" src=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PhysFrng-Stvns-31-5.jpg\" alt=\"Detail of the Periodic Table, as described by James Carter's theory of &quot;Circlon Synchronicity.&quot;\" width=\"660\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PhysFrng-Stvns-31-5.jpg 932w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PhysFrng-Stvns-31-5-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PhysFrng-Stvns-31-5-768x256.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wertheim coined the term &#8220;outsider science&#8221; in her 2011 <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsonthefringe.com\">book<\/a>\u00a0<em>Physics on the Fringe,<\/em> a sociological study of the mavericks who invent alternative theories of the universe in their backyards and basements. In 2012, she curated an <a href=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/exhibits\/physicsonthefringe.html\">exhibition<\/a> about this work at the IFF&#8217;s former exhibition-space in Los Angeles, celebrating the theories of her book&#8217;s hero James Carter, the\u00a0Hieronymus Bosch of the field. At the IFF we salute Jim and his magical vision of the world.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2293\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PhysFrng-Stvns-31-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2293\" class=\"wp-image-2293\" src=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PhysFrng-Stvns-31-6.jpg\" alt=\"Detail of the Periodic Table, as described by James Carter's theory of &quot;Circlon Synchronicity.&quot;\" width=\"600\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PhysFrng-Stvns-31-6.jpg 932w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PhysFrng-Stvns-31-6-300x97.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PhysFrng-Stvns-31-6-768x249.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Details of the Periodic Table, as described by James Carter&#8217;s theory of &#8220;Circlon Synchronicity.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Washington Post,\u00a0IFF director Margaret Wertheim has an essay\u00a0on outsider physics, inspired by Ren Weschler\u2019s enchanting new book Waves Passing in the Night\u00a0about Walter Murch, the legendary Hollywood film-and-sound editor who has his own cosmological theory. Here she draws parallels with outsider art. Wertheim coined the term &#8220;outsider science&#8221; in her 2011 book\u00a0Physics on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions\/2299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}