{"id":555,"date":"2006-08-10T18:53:45","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T18:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=555"},"modified":"2006-08-10T18:53:45","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T18:53:45","slug":"professor-r-appleblossom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2006\/08\/10\/professor-r-appleblossom\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor R. Appleblossom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mwatkins.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/archives\/mwatkins.jpg?resize=580%2C335\" width=\"580\" height=\"335\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I met Matthew Watkins in a field in Somerset, where he was sitting beneath a sign saying &#8220;Free Maths Information&#8221;. He&#8217;s a musicomathematical nomad (or is that a mathemusical itinerant?) with some interesting ideas about the connection between the distribution of prime numbers and fundamental physics. Maths pages <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maths.ex.ac.uk\/~mwatkins\/\">here<\/a> (includes many interesting side notes, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maths.ex.ac.uk\/~mwatkins\/PKDick.htm\">this essay by Philip K Dick<\/a>). Music pages <a href=\"http:\/\/soundsfromthespring.blogspot.com\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrenofthedrone.net\/\">here<\/a> (and make sure you check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/rainy_night_in_the_bell_tent\">this out<\/a>). More Big Green pictures <a href=\"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/pics\/bgg06\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met Matthew Watkins in a field in Somerset, where he was sitting beneath a sign saying &#8220;Free Maths Information&#8221;. He&#8217;s a musicomathematical nomad (or is that a mathemusical itinerant?) with some interesting ideas about the connection between the distribution of prime numbers and fundamental physics. Maths pages here (includes many interesting side notes, such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-8X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}