{"id":186368,"date":"2024-03-30T02:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T07:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/opposites-attract-not-in-new-experiment-that-finds-loophole-in-fundamental-rule-of-physics"},"modified":"2024-03-30T02:23:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T07:23:00","slug":"opposites-attract-not-in-new-experiment-that-finds-loophole-in-fundamental-rule-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/opposites-attract-not-in-new-experiment-that-finds-loophole-in-fundamental-rule-of-physics","title":{"rendered":"Opposites attract? Not in new experiment that finds loophole in fundamental rule of physics"},"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\/xweiQukBM_k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/high-energy-neutrinos-milky-way-galaxy-icecube\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/high-energy-neutrinos-milky-way-galaxy-icecube\">Scientists find \u2018ghost particles\u2019 spewing from our Milky Way galaxy in landmark discovery (video)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause like-charged objects in a vacuum are expected to repel regardless of whether the sign of the charge they carry is positive or negative, the expectation is that like-charged particles in solution must also monotonically repel,\u201d the researchers wrote in the paper.<\/p>\n<p>To test the assumption, the researchers placed charged silica microparticles (measuring just 0.0002 inch, or 5 micrometers, wide \u2014 a fraction of the width of a human hair) inside water or one of two types of alcohol. By tracking the charges with a microscope, the team established that, inside water, the positively charged particles pushed themselves away from each other in accordance with Coulomb\u2019s law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related: Scientists find \u2018ghost particles\u2019 spewing from our Milky Way galaxy in landmark discovery (video) \u201cBecause like-charged objects in a vacuum are expected to repel regardless of whether the sign of the charge they carry is positive or negative, the expectation is that like-charged particles in solution must also monotonically repel,\u201d the researchers wrote in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186368","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}