{"id":112429,"date":"2020-09-03T07:42:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T14:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/physicists-made-boats-sail-upside-down-on-an-ocean-of-levitating-liquid"},"modified":"2020-09-03T07:42:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T14:42:26","slug":"physicists-made-boats-sail-upside-down-on-an-ocean-of-levitating-liquid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/physicists-made-boats-sail-upside-down-on-an-ocean-of-levitating-liquid","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Made Boats Sail Upside-Down on an Ocean of Levitating Liquid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bodsuTucSxQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s like something out of <em>Stranger Things<\/em>, but with fewer Demogorgons and less of the sinister darkness: physicists have flipped reality on its head, creating their own \u2018upside down\u2019 by getting small boats to float underneath a levitating liquid.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing it in action, you would think you were watching some kind of sci-fi movie effect, but it\u2019s all to do with the forces of vertical vibration. It\u2019s already been established that some carefully calibrated vertical shaking can keep liquid suspended inside a container, and here the team has taken advantage of the phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>In this new study, not only do they achieve the suspension, but demonstrate that it\u2019s possible to create a similar balance of forces in the lower half of the chamber as in the upper half: when put on the upside down surface of a viscous liquid, a small model boat or ball will stay in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s like something out of Stranger Things, but with fewer Demogorgons and less of the sinister darkness: physicists have flipped reality on its head, creating their own \u2018upside down\u2019 by getting small boats to float underneath a levitating liquid. Seeing it in action, you would think you were watching some kind of sci-fi movie effect, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112429","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=112429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}