{"id":29770,"date":"2015-04-23T06:13:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T10:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=29770"},"modified":"2015-04-23T06:13:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T10:13:05","slug":"interstellar-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/04\/interstellar-phd.html","title":{"rendered":"Interstellar PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29778\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/04\/Interstellar-PhD.jpg\" alt=\"Interstellar PhD\" width=\"448\" height=\"350\"><\/p>\n<p>Not a good planet for humanity\u2019s overall survival. But perhaps a good place for a university? Or better yet, what if you get to enroll in a university on this planet, but do your research on Earth or in space, so that you can earn a PhD in an hour or less, local relative time?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a good planet for humanity\u2019s overall survival. But perhaps a good place for a university? 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