{"id":152663,"date":"2022-12-12T15:24:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T21:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/spectacular-liquid-fractal-generated-by-a-submerged-spinning-top"},"modified":"2022-12-12T15:24:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T21:24:59","slug":"spectacular-liquid-fractal-generated-by-a-submerged-spinning-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/spectacular-liquid-fractal-generated-by-a-submerged-spinning-top","title":{"rendered":"Spectacular liquid fractal generated by a submerged spinning top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spectacular-liquid-fractal-generated-by-a-submerged-spinning-top3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A spinning top submerged in a liquid can make a striking fractal structure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/gallery\/mandelbrot-fractals-in-3d\/\">Fractals<\/a> are patterns and structures that repeat themselves at smaller scales when zoomed in. <a href=\"https:\/\/nnf.mit.edu\/people\/bavand-keshavarz\">Bavand Keshavarz<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nnf.mit.edu\/people\/michela-geri\">Michela Geri<\/a> at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were studying how one liquid breaks up into droplets when it is mixed into another and unexpectedly discovered a new kind of liquid fractal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spinning top submerged in a liquid can make a striking fractal structure. Fractals are patterns and structures that repeat themselves at smaller scales when zoomed in. Bavand Keshavarz and Michela Geri at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were studying how one liquid breaks up into droplets when it is mixed into another and unexpectedly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152663","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=152663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}