{"id":19414,"date":"2015-11-18T14:47:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T22:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/inexplicable-superconductor-fractals-hint-at-higher-universal-laws"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:19:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:19:24","slug":"inexplicable-superconductor-fractals-hint-at-higher-universal-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/inexplicable-superconductor-fractals-hint-at-higher-universal-laws","title":{"rendered":"Inexplicable Superconductor Fractals Hint at Higher Universal Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inexplicable-superconductor-fractals-hint-at-higher-universal-laws.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What seemed to be flaws in the structure of a mystery metal may have given physicists a glimpse into as-yet-undiscovered laws of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>The qualities of a high-temperature superconductor \u2014 a compound in which electrons obey the spooky laws of quantum physics, and flow in perfect synchrony, without friction \u2014 appear linked to the fractal arrangements of seemingly random oxygen atoms.<\/p>\n<p>Those atoms weren\u2019t thought to matter, especially not in relation to the behavior of individual electrons, which exist at a scale thousands of times smaller. The findings, published Aug. 12 in <em>Nature<\/em>, are a physics equivalent of discovering a link between two utterly separate dimensions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2010\/08\/superconductor-fractals\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What seemed to be flaws in the structure of a mystery metal may have given physicists a glimpse into as-yet-undiscovered laws of the universe. The qualities of a high-temperature superconductor \u2014 a compound in which electrons obey the spooky laws of quantum physics, and flow in perfect synchrony, without friction \u2014 appear linked to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19414","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69179,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19414\/revisions\/69179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}