{"id":452,"date":"2002-10-14T07:51:14","date_gmt":"2002-10-14T07:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=452"},"modified":"2002-10-14T07:51:14","modified_gmt":"2002-10-14T07:51:14","slug":"and-were-funny-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"AND WE&#8217;RE FUNNY, TOO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><b>AND WE&#8217;RE FUNNY, TOO<\/b><\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kleinbottle.com\/images\/bigclassicwithsliderule.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kleinbottle.com\/images\/bigclassicwithsliderule.jpg\" align=\"right\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" border=\"1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dailyglobe2\/286\/focus\/Klein_s_bottled_obsession-.shtml\">An astrophysicist and a glass-blower <\/a>have teamed up to make &#8220;impossible&#8221; Klein bottles:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1992, while working as a researcher in telescope design at the University of California, Berkeley, Stoll persuaded a glass-blower friend to stretch the neck of a bottle through its side, and then to join the neck to a hole in the bottle&#8217;s base. The resulting oddity, the author of &#8221;Silicon Snake Oil&#8221; said, was, if not a true Klein bottle, at least an image of a Klein bottle &#8221;transferred into three dimensions&#8230;&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Stoll has sold nearly a thousand bottles, which start at $30. Why hasn&#8217;t he sold more? &#8221;Not many people seem to need boundary-free, nonorientable surfaces right now,&#8221; he admits. &#8221;But still, I&#8217;ve earned more money than Enron, right?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AND WE&#8217;RE FUNNY, TOO An astrophysicist and a glass-blower have teamed up to make &#8220;impossible&#8221; Klein bottles: In 1992, while working as a researcher in telescope design at the University of California, Berkeley, Stoll persuaded a glass-blower friend to stretch the neck of a bottle through its side, and then to join the neck to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}