{"id":201625,"date":"2024-12-14T13:10:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T19:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/physicists-find-particle-that-only-has-mass-when-moving-in-one-direction"},"modified":"2024-12-14T13:10:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T19:10:13","slug":"physicists-find-particle-that-only-has-mass-when-moving-in-one-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/physicists-find-particle-that-only-has-mass-when-moving-in-one-direction","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Find Particle That Only Has Mass When Moving in One Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-find-particle-that-only-has-mass-when-moving-in-one-direction2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have made a satisfying and intriguing physics discovery some 16 years after it was first predicted to be a possibility: a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quasiparticle\">quasiparticle<\/a> (a group of particles behaving as one) that only has an effective mass when moving in one direction.<\/p>\n<p>In physics, mass generally refers to a property of particles that relates to things like their energy and resistance to movement. Yet not all mass is built the same \u2013 some describes the energy of a particle at rest, for example, while mass may also take into account the energy of a particle\u2019s motion.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the effective mass describes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quasiparticles\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">quasiparticle<\/a>\u2019s response to forces, which varies depending on whether the movement through the material is up and down, or back and forth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have made a satisfying and intriguing physics discovery some 16 years after it was first predicted to be a possibility: a quasiparticle (a group of particles behaving as one) that only has an effective mass when moving in one direction. In physics, mass generally refers to a property of particles that relates to things [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201625","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\/201625","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}