{"id":133918,"date":"2022-01-11T20:22:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T04:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/mit-physicists-detect-strange-hybrid-particle-held-together-by-uniquely-intense-glue"},"modified":"2022-01-11T20:22:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T04:22:57","slug":"mit-physicists-detect-strange-hybrid-particle-held-together-by-uniquely-intense-glue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/mit-physicists-detect-strange-hybrid-particle-held-together-by-uniquely-intense-glue","title":{"rendered":"MIT Physicists Detect Strange Hybrid Particle Held Together by Uniquely Intense \u201cGlue\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-physicists-detect-strange-hybrid-particle-held-together-by-uniquely-intense-glue2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the particle world, sometimes two is better than one. Take, for instance, electron pairs. When two electrons are bound together, they can glide through a material without friction, giving the material special superconducting properties. Such paired electrons, or Cooper pairs, are a kind of hybrid particle \u2014 a composite of two particles that behaves as one, with properties that are greater than the sum of its parts.<\/p>\n<p>Now MIT<\/p>\n<p>MIT is an acronym for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is a prestigious private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts that was founded in 1861. It is organized into five Schools: architecture and planning; engineering; humanities, arts, and social sciences; management; and science. MIT\u2019s impact includes many scientific breakthroughs and technological advances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the particle world, sometimes two is better than one. Take, for instance, electron pairs. When two electrons are bound together, they can glide through a material without friction, giving the material special superconducting properties. Such paired electrons, or Cooper pairs, are a kind of hybrid particle \u2014 a composite of two particles that behaves [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133918","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}