{"id":12045,"date":"2019-04-30T07:03:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T07:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=12045"},"modified":"2019-05-13T05:08:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T05:08:09","slug":"2019-05-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2019-05-12\/","title":{"rendered":"How-Do-We-Know: Relativity and Electro-Magnetism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Ron Garret<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>11 a.m., May 12, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is another in a series of talks on the history of science and how we came to our present understanding of how our world works. This installment focuses on relativity and electro-magnetism.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Garret is a software engineer by trade.  He is currently working on easy-to-use-cryptography software.  He was a co-founder and CTO of Virgin Charter, and an early hire at Google.  He was previously a rocket scientist.  He also made a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graceofgodmovie.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">feature-length documentary about homelessness<\/a>.  His blog can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rongarret.info\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nRSVP on Meetup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/261037881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nSee videos of our past Forums <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To help our Forum series continue, please consider making a donation or becoming a member (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/membership\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/membership\/<\/a>) of the Humanist Community.<\/p>\n<p>Do your online shopping at <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/ch\/94-6173979\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/ch\/94-6173979<\/a>, and Amazon donates to the Humanist Community every time you do.<\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b> If you would like to speak at a Forum, or know of someone who you think might be willing to speak at a Forum, please send an email about your idea to the <a href=\"mailto:hc-program@googlegroups.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">HCSV Program Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Garret 11 a.m., May 12, 2019 This is another in a series of talks on the history of science and how we came to our present understanding of how our world works. This installment focuses on relativity and electro-magnetism. Ron Garret is a software engineer by trade. He is currently working on easy-to-use-cryptography software. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2019-05-12\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How-Do-We-Know: Relativity and Electro-Magnetism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12046,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045\/revisions\/12046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}