{"id":101120,"date":"2020-01-20T16:25:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T00:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/physics-shows-that-imperfections-make-perfect"},"modified":"2020-01-20T16:25:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T00:25:45","slug":"physics-shows-that-imperfections-make-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/physics-shows-that-imperfections-make-perfect","title":{"rendered":"Physics shows that imperfections make perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physics-shows-that-imperfections-make-perfect2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Northwestern University researchers have added a new dimension to the importance of diversity.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, physicists have experimentally demonstrated that certain systems with interacting entities can synchronize only if the entities within the system are different from one another.<\/p>\n<p>This finding offers a new twist to the previous understanding of how <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/collective+behavior\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">collective behavior<\/a> found in nature\u2014such as fireflies flashing in unison or pacemaker cells working together to generate a heartbeat\u2014can arise even when the individual insects or cells are different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northwestern University researchers have added a new dimension to the importance of diversity. For the first time, physicists have experimentally demonstrated that certain systems with interacting entities can synchronize only if the entities within the system are different from one another. This finding offers a new twist to the previous understanding of how collective behavior [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101120","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}