{"id":169014,"date":"2023-08-04T10:22:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T15:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/fourth-dimension-breakthrough-new-metamaterial-controls-energy-waves"},"modified":"2023-08-04T10:22:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T15:22:32","slug":"fourth-dimension-breakthrough-new-metamaterial-controls-energy-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/fourth-dimension-breakthrough-new-metamaterial-controls-energy-waves","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Dimension Breakthrough: New Metamaterial Controls Energy Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fourth-dimension-breakthrough-new-metamaterial-controls-energy-waves.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists engineered a synthetic metamaterial to direct mechanical waves along a specific path, which adds an innovative layer of control to 4D reality, otherwise known as the synthetic dimension.<\/p>\n<p>Everyday life involves the three dimensions or 3D \u2014 along an X, Y, and Z axis, or up and down, left and right, and forward and back. But, in recent years scientists like Guoliang Huang, the Huber and Helen Croft Chair in Engineering at the University of Missouri, have explored a \u201cfourth dimension\u201d (4D), or synthetic dimension, as an extension of our current physical reality.<\/p>\n<p>Creation of a new synthetic metamaterial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists engineered a synthetic metamaterial to direct mechanical waves along a specific path, which adds an innovative layer of control to 4D reality, otherwise known as the synthetic dimension. Everyday life involves the three dimensions or 3D \u2014 along an X, Y, and Z axis, or up and down, left and right, and forward and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169014","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}