{"id":118485,"date":"2021-01-13T18:23:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T02:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/storm-in-a-cosmic-teacup-a-new-paradigm-for-understanding-plasma-turbulence"},"modified":"2021-01-13T18:23:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T02:23:21","slug":"storm-in-a-cosmic-teacup-a-new-paradigm-for-understanding-plasma-turbulence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/storm-in-a-cosmic-teacup-a-new-paradigm-for-understanding-plasma-turbulence","title":{"rendered":"Storm in a cosmic teacup: A new paradigm for understanding plasma turbulence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/storm-in-a-cosmic-teacup-a-new-paradigm-for-understanding-plasma-turbulence2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the path to writing his Ph.D. dissertation, Lucio Milanese made a discovery\u2014one that refocused his research, and will now likely dominate his thesis.<\/p>\n<p>Milanese studies <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/plasma\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">plasma<\/a>, a gas-like flow of ions and electrons that comprises 99 percent of the visible universe, including the Earth\u2019s ionosphere, interstellar space, the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solar+wind\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar wind<\/a>, and the environment of stars. Plasmas, like other fluids, are often found in a turbulent state characterized by chaotic, unpredictable motion, providing multiple challenges to researchers who seek to understand the cosmic universe or hope to harness burning plasmas for fusion energy.<\/p>\n<p>Milanese is interested in what physicist Richard Feynman called \u201cthe most important unsolved problem of classical physics\u201d\u2014turbulence. In this case, the focus is plasma turbulence, its nature and structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the path to writing his Ph.D. dissertation, Lucio Milanese made a discovery\u2014one that refocused his research, and will now likely dominate his thesis. Milanese studies plasma, a gas-like flow of ions and electrons that comprises 99 percent of the visible universe, including the Earth\u2019s ionosphere, interstellar space, the solar wind, and the environment of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118485","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}