{"id":142301,"date":"2022-07-16T18:04:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T23:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/knots-in-the-resonator-elegant-math-in-humble-physics"},"modified":"2022-07-16T18:04:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T23:04:06","slug":"knots-in-the-resonator-elegant-math-in-humble-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/knots-in-the-resonator-elegant-math-in-humble-physics","title":{"rendered":"Knots in the resonator: Elegant math in humble physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/knots-in-the-resonator-elegant-math-in-humble-physics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the heart of every resonator\u2014be it a cello, a gravitational wave detector, or the antenna in your cell phone\u2014there is a beautiful bit of mathematics that has been heretofore unacknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>Yale physicists Jack Harris and Nicholas Read know this because they started finding knots in their data.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>, Harris, Read, and their co-authors describe a previously unknown characteristic of resonators. A <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/resonator\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">resonator<\/a> is any object that vibrates only at a specific set of frequencies. They are ubiquitous in sensors, electronics, musical instruments, and other devices, where they are used to produce, amplify, or detect vibrations at specific frequencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the heart of every resonator\u2014be it a cello, a gravitational wave detector, or the antenna in your cell phone\u2014there is a beautiful bit of mathematics that has been heretofore unacknowledged. Yale physicists Jack Harris and Nicholas Read know this because they started finding knots in their data. In a new study in the journal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,1512,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-mobile-phones","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142301","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=142301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}