{"id":170775,"date":"2023-08-28T13:22:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T18:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/clean-power-breakthrough-impossible-energy-generation-using-graphene-challenges-century-old-physics-paradigms"},"modified":"2023-08-28T13:22:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T18:22:57","slug":"clean-power-breakthrough-impossible-energy-generation-using-graphene-challenges-century-old-physics-paradigms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/clean-power-breakthrough-impossible-energy-generation-using-graphene-challenges-century-old-physics-paradigms","title":{"rendered":"Clean Power Breakthrough: \u201cImpossible\u201d Energy Generation Using Graphene Challenges Century-Old Physics Paradigms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/clean-power-breakthrough-impossible-energy-generation-using-graphene-challenges-century-old-physics-paradigms2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers reports they have succeeded in disproving a long-held tenet of modern physics\u2013that useful work cannot be obtained from random thermal fluctuations\u2013thanks in part to <a href=\"https:\/\/thedebrief.org\/unexpected-discovery-seemingly-defies-long-held-experimental-law-of-physics-research-team-claims\/\">the unique properties of graphene<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The microscopic motion of particles within a fluid, otherwise known as Brownian motion for its discovery by Scottish scientist Robert Brown, has long been considered an impossible means of attempting to generate useful work.<\/p>\n<p>The idea had been most famously laid to rest decades ago by physicist Richard Feynman, who proposed a thought experiment in May 1962 involving an apparent perpetual motion machine, dubbed a Brownian ratchet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers reports they have succeeded in disproving a long-held tenet of modern physics\u2013that useful work cannot be obtained from random thermal fluctuations\u2013thanks in part to the unique properties of graphene. The microscopic motion of particles within a fluid, otherwise known as Brownian motion for its discovery by Scottish scientist Robert Brown, has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170775","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\/170775","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=170775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}