{"id":167700,"date":"2023-07-17T14:22:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T19:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/scientists-vibrated-a-box-of-particles-and-they-formed-a-strange-new-material"},"modified":"2023-07-17T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T19:22:46","slug":"scientists-vibrated-a-box-of-particles-and-they-formed-a-strange-new-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/scientists-vibrated-a-box-of-particles-and-they-formed-a-strange-new-material","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Vibrated a Box of Particles And They Formed a Strange New Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-vibrated-a-box-of-particles-and-they-formed-a-strange-new-material2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Footage of thousands of tiny metal spheres set jiggling in a shallow tray has revealed an arrangement of particles once considered impossible.<\/p>\n<p>A team of physicists from the University of Paris-Saclay in France has observed an unusual combination of order and chaos known as a \u2018quasicrystal\u2019 emerging spontaneously in a granular material on a millimeter-scale for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>If there is beauty in order, crystals are the very manifestation of elegance and attraction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footage of thousands of tiny metal spheres set jiggling in a shallow tray has revealed an arrangement of particles once considered impossible. A team of physicists from the University of Paris-Saclay in France has observed an unusual combination of order and chaos known as a \u2018quasicrystal\u2019 emerging spontaneously in a granular material on a millimeter-scale [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167700","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}