{"id":105782,"date":"2020-04-20T09:03:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T16:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/scientists-use-olive-oil-to-discover-new-universal-physics-law"},"modified":"2020-04-20T09:03:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T16:03:44","slug":"scientists-use-olive-oil-to-discover-new-universal-physics-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/scientists-use-olive-oil-to-discover-new-universal-physics-law","title":{"rendered":"Scientists use olive oil to discover new universal physics law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-use-olive-oil-to-discover-new-universal-physics-law.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The research team, which also included Rodriguez\u2019w PhD students Zou Geng and Kevin Peters, increased and decreased the distances between the mirrors at different speeds and noted how light transmitted through the cavity was affected. They saw that the direction in which the mirrors moved influenced how much light got through the cavity, finding that \u201cthe transmission of light through the cavity is non-linear.\u201d This behavior of light, called hysteresis, is present in the phase transitions of boiling water or magnetic materials.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists also increased the speed with which the oil-filled cavity opened and closed, observing that under such conditions the hysteresis was not always present. This allowed them to extrapolate a universal law. \u201cThe equations that describe how light behaves in our oil-filled cavity are similar to those describing collections of atoms, superconductors and even high energy physics,\u201d elaborated Rodriguez, adding: \u201cTherefore, the universal behavior we discovered is likely to be observed in such systems as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"490\" height=\"218\" class=\"aligncenter\" type=\"lazy-image\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-use-olive-oil-to-discover-new-universal-physics-law2.jpg\" id=\"54eba\" class=\"\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"78a92f8ac00b6c33f6f42d5d1ffc0f61\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The research team, which also included Rodriguez\u2019w PhD students Zou Geng and Kevin Peters, increased and decreased the distances between the mirrors at different speeds and noted how light transmitted through the cavity was affected. They saw that the direction in which the mirrors moved influenced how much light got through the cavity, finding that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105782","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}