{"id":151322,"date":"2022-11-28T17:23:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T23:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-friedmann-equations-and-how-they-are-related-to-protests-in-china"},"modified":"2022-11-28T17:23:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T23:23:12","slug":"the-friedmann-equations-and-how-they-are-related-to-protests-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-friedmann-equations-and-how-they-are-related-to-protests-in-china","title":{"rendered":"The Friedmann equations, and how they are related to protests in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-friedmann-equations-and-how-they-are-related-to-protests-in-china2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW DELHI:<\/strong> Among all the protests that have erupted across <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/china\">China<\/a> following the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/covid-lockdown\">strict quarantine measures enforced by the government for Covid-19<\/a>, one form that has stood out is the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/covid-anti-xi-slogans-raised-protests-in-beijing-shanghai-101669595471346.html\">display of a physics equation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In images widely being circulated on social media, students of Beijing\u2019s Tsinghua University can be seen holding sheets on which is written one of the Friedmann equations.<\/p>\n<p>What these equations have to do with the subject of the protests is open to speculation. Many on social media have suggested that it is a play on the words \u201cfree man\u201d. Another view is that it symbolises a free and \u201copen\u201d China, because the Friedmann equations describe an \u201copen\u201d (expanding) universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Among all the protests that have erupted across China following the strict quarantine measures enforced by the government for Covid-19, one form that has stood out is the display of a physics equation. In images widely being circulated on social media, students of Beijing\u2019s Tsinghua University can be seen holding sheets on which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}