{"id":166991,"date":"2023-07-06T10:26:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T15:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/european-researchers-design-a-rubber-block-that-can-count-to-ten"},"modified":"2023-07-06T10:26:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T15:26:51","slug":"european-researchers-design-a-rubber-block-that-can-count-to-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/european-researchers-design-a-rubber-block-that-can-count-to-ten","title":{"rendered":"European researchers design a rubber block that can count to ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/soO2OzbdRzU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Physicist Lennard Kwakernaak finds the \u201ccomplexity of simple things\u201d intriguing, and it is a tough ask to make an inanimate object count.<\/p>\n<p>A collaboration between researchers at Leiden University and AMOLF in Amsterdam has yielded a new metamaterial, a rubber block that can count. The researchers are calling it a Beam Counter and it is pretty nifty.<\/p>\n<p>In a world where researchers are racing to make a quantum computer that can do complex math, building a new rubber block might not seem like much. But physicist Lennard Kwakernaak finds the \u201ccomplexity of simple things\u201d intriguing, and it is a tough ask to make an inanimate object count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicist Lennard Kwakernaak finds the \u201ccomplexity of simple things\u201d intriguing, and it is a tough ask to make an inanimate object count. A collaboration between researchers at Leiden University and AMOLF in Amsterdam has yielded a new metamaterial, a rubber block that can count. The researchers are calling it a Beam Counter and it is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166991","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}