{"id":181552,"date":"2024-01-28T02:23:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T08:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/physicists-identify-a-surprising-phenomenon-of-aging-in-materials-over-time"},"modified":"2024-01-28T02:23:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T08:23:06","slug":"physicists-identify-a-surprising-phenomenon-of-aging-in-materials-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/physicists-identify-a-surprising-phenomenon-of-aging-in-materials-over-time","title":{"rendered":"Physicists identify a surprising phenomenon of aging in materials over time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-identify-a-surprising-phenomenon-of-aging-in-materials-over-time3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists in Darmstadt are investigating aging processes in materials. For the first time, they have measured the ticking of an internal clock in glass. When evaluating the data, they discovered a surprising phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>We experience time as having only one direction. Who has ever seen a cup smash on the floor, only to then spontaneously reassemble itself? To <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/physicists\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">physicists<\/a>, this is not immediately self-evident because the formulae that describe movements apply irrespective of the direction of time.<\/p>\n<p>A video of a pendulum swinging unimpeded, for instance, would look just the same if it ran backwards. The everyday irreversibility we experience only comes into play through a further law of nature, the second law of thermodynamics. This states that the disorder in a system grows constantly. If the smashed cup were to reassemble itself, however, the disorder would decrease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists in Darmstadt are investigating aging processes in materials. For the first time, they have measured the ticking of an internal clock in glass. When evaluating the data, they discovered a surprising phenomenon. We experience time as having only one direction. Who has ever seen a cup smash on the floor, only to then spontaneously [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181552","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}