{"id":520,"date":"2008-01-23T08:40:33","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T08:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=520"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:21:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:21:23","slug":"pyroton-particle-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2008\/01\/pyroton-particle-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Pyroton Particle Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/pyrotons_lg.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/pyrotons_lg.html','popup','width=750,height=257,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"pyrotons_sm.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/pyrotons_sm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><BR><br \/>\nThis is a phosphorescent ink silk-screen print of a small self portrait I did. It is printed on nitrocellulose or &#8220;Flash&#8221; paper. It is 4.25 inches by 4.25 inches. &#8220;Flash&#8221; paper is usually used as a stage trick. It burns extremely brightly and almost instantly, without smoke or ash.<BR><br \/>\nThese are three states of the same piece; in the light, in the dark and post-ignition view. Click the image to see a larger version.<BR><br \/>\nThe title comes from a theory by a &#8220;scientist&#8221; named Larry Arnold. He believes that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spontaneous_human_combustion\" target=\"_blank\">Spontaneous Human Combustion<\/a> occurs because of subatomic particles in the body called Pyrotons. This theory has never been proven though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a phosphorescent ink silk-screen print of a small self portrait I did. It is printed on nitrocellulose or &#8220;Flash&#8221; paper. It is 4.25 inches by 4.25 inches. &#8220;Flash&#8221; paper is usually used as a stage trick. It burns extremely brightly and almost instantly, without smoke or ash. These are three states of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}