{"id":58908,"date":"2024-07-21T22:43:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T20:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=58908"},"modified":"2024-07-21T22:43:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T20:43:42","slug":"carbon-is-a-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/carbon-is-a-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Is a God"},"content":{"rendered":"What\u2019s next in the \u201cfight\u201d against carbon dioxide? A change of thought.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe usually associate \u201cCO\u2082\u201d with the idea that a molecule of carbon dioxide consists of one atom of carbon (C) and two atoms of oxygen (O), whereupon the three little balls from the atom-and-molecule model of our schooldays hazily appear in our consciousness. But, originally, \u201cCO\u2082\u201d was nothing more than a quantitative ratio: what we call carbon dioxide consists, when quantitatively analysed, of two parts oxygen and one part carbon.\n\n\n\nOnly a Hypotheses\n\n\n\nIn an article titled \u201cWhat is a Particle?,\u201d New York-based science journalist Natalie Wolchover wrote: \u201cIt has been thought of as many things: a point-like object, an excitation of a field, a speck of pure math that has cut into reality. <div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s next in the \u201cfight\u201d against carbon dioxide? A change of thought. We usually associate \u201cCO\u2082\u201d with the idea that a molecule of carbon dioxide consists of one atom of carbon (C) and two atoms of oxygen (O), whereupon the three little balls from the atom-and-molecule model of our schooldays hazily appear in our consciousness. But, originally, \u201cCO\u2082\u201d was nothing more than a quantitative ratio: what we call carbon dioxide consists, when quantitatively analysed, of two parts oxygen and one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9211,"featured_media":57860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8825,8823],"tags":[11530,11506,8824],"class_list":["post-58908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-natural-sciences","category-reflection","tag-english-issue-29-30-2024","tag-ausgabe-19-2024-en","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}