{"id":11940,"date":"2014-08-02T11:31:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T18:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11940"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:13:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:13:46","slug":"physicists-prove-surprising-rule-of-threes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/physicists-prove-surprising-rule-of-threes","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Prove Surprising Rule of Threes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author\">By: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonsfoundation.org\/authors\/natalie-wolchover\/?quanta\">Natalie Wolchover<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 Quanta Magazine<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11187\" src=\"\" alt=\"Efimov trimers.\" width=\"640\" height=\"483\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>More than 40 years after a Soviet nuclear physicist proposed an outlandish theory that trios of particles can arrange themselves in an infinite nesting-doll configuration, experimentalists have reported strong evidence that this bizarre state of matter is real.<\/p>\n<p>In 1970, Vitaly Efimov was manipulating the equations of quantum mechanics in an attempt to calculate the behavior of sets of three particles, such as the protons and neutrons that populate atomic nuclei, when he discovered a law that pertained not only to nuclear ingredients but also, under the right conditions, to any trio of particles in nature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonsfoundation.org\/quanta\/20140527-physicists-prove-surprising-rule-of-threes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Natalie Wolchover \u2014 Quanta Magazine More than 40 years after a Soviet nuclear physicist proposed an outlandish theory that trios of particles can arrange themselves in an infinite nesting-doll configuration, experimentalists have reported strong evidence that this bizarre state of matter is real. In 1970, Vitaly Efimov was manipulating the equations of quantum mechanics [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46949,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940\/revisions\/46949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}