{"id":205262,"date":"2025-02-02T12:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T18:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/the-torus-of-perception"},"modified":"2025-02-02T12:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T18:20:13","slug":"the-torus-of-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/the-torus-of-perception","title":{"rendered":"The Torus of Perception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-torus-of-perception2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do eyes, quantum collapse, and photon emission have in common?<\/p>\n<p>While experimenting with a simple particle simulation, an unexpected phenomenon emerged that bridges multiple realms of physics and perception.<\/p>\n<p>The simulation, designed to model particles moving in toroidal orbits while attracting each other, spontaneously developed a striking pattern: a perfectly centered emission of particles perpendicular to the toroid\u2019s plane, resembling both an eye and a quantum emission event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do eyes, quantum collapse, and photon emission have in common? While experimenting with a simple particle simulation, an unexpected phenomenon emerged that bridges multiple realms of physics and perception. The simulation, designed to model particles moving in toroidal orbits while attracting each other, spontaneously developed a striking pattern: a perfectly centered emission of particles [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205262","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\/205262","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}