{"id":100786,"date":"2020-01-13T12:43:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T20:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/the-fastest-spinning-object-ever-made-could-help-spot-quantum-friction-in-a-vacuum"},"modified":"2020-01-13T12:43:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T20:43:43","slug":"the-fastest-spinning-object-ever-made-could-help-spot-quantum-friction-in-a-vacuum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/the-fastest-spinning-object-ever-made-could-help-spot-quantum-friction-in-a-vacuum","title":{"rendered":"The fastest-spinning object ever made could help spot quantum friction in a vacuum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-fastest-spinning-object-ever-made-could-help-spot-quantum-friction-in-a-vacuum2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To detect the quantum friction of empty space, scientists are going for a spin.<\/p>\n<p>A twirling nanoparticle, suspended in a laser beam inside of a vacuum, can measure tiny twisting forces, making it the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41565-019-0605-9\">most sensitive detector of torque yet created<\/a>. Researchers say the device could one day detect an elusive quantum effect called vacuum friction.<\/p>\n<p>The suspended nanoparticle can spin more than 300 billion times a minute. \u201cThis is the fastest human-made rotor in the world,\u201d says physicist Tongcang Li of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To detect the quantum friction of empty space, scientists are going for a spin. A twirling nanoparticle, suspended in a laser beam inside of a vacuum, can measure tiny twisting forces, making it the most sensitive detector of torque yet created. Researchers say the device could one day detect an elusive quantum effect called vacuum [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100786","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}