{"id":101077,"date":"2020-01-19T13:07:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T21:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/nothingness-has-friction-and-the-fastest-spinning-object-ever-made-could-measure-it"},"modified":"2020-01-19T13:07:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T21:07:21","slug":"nothingness-has-friction-and-the-fastest-spinning-object-ever-made-could-measure-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/nothingness-has-friction-and-the-fastest-spinning-object-ever-made-could-measure-it","title":{"rendered":"Nothingness Has Friction, And The Fastest Spinning Object Ever Made Could Measure It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nothingness-has-friction-and-the-fastest-spinning-object-ever-made-could-measure-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have created the fastest spinning object ever made, taking them a big step closer to being able to measure the mysterious quantum forces at play inside \u2018nothingness\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The record-breaking object in question is a tiny piece of silica, capable of whipping around billions of times per second \u2014 creating sufficient sensitivity that the team think they\u2019ll be able to use it to detect unfathomably small amounts of drag caused by the \u2018friction\u2019 within a vacuum.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-sound-of-nothing-was-measured-at-room-temperature-and-it-will-help-us-find-cosmic-collisions\">science of nothingness<\/a> is quickly becoming a big deal in physics, as we strive to understand how the Universe operates at its very foundations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have created the fastest spinning object ever made, taking them a big step closer to being able to measure the mysterious quantum forces at play inside \u2018nothingness\u2019. The record-breaking object in question is a tiny piece of silica, capable of whipping around billions of times per second \u2014 creating sufficient sensitivity that the team [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101077","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=101077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}