{"id":215269,"date":"2025-06-03T02:16:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/redefining-physics-to-roll-a-ball-vertically"},"modified":"2025-06-03T02:16:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:16:43","slug":"redefining-physics-to-roll-a-ball-vertically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/redefining-physics-to-roll-a-ball-vertically","title":{"rendered":"Redefining physics to roll a ball vertically"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/redefining-physics-to-roll-a-ball-vertically2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Waterloo have achieved a feat previously thought to be impossible\u2014getting a sphere to roll down a totally vertical surface without applying any external force.<\/p>\n<p>The spontaneous rolling motion, captured by high-speed cameras, was an unexpected observation after months of trial, error, and theoretical calculations by two Waterloo research teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we first saw it happening, we were frankly in disbelief,\u201d said Dr. Sushanta Mitra, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering and executive director of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the University of Waterloo have achieved a feat previously thought to be impossible\u2014getting a sphere to roll down a totally vertical surface without applying any external force. The spontaneous rolling motion, captured by high-speed cameras, was an unexpected observation after months of trial, error, and theoretical calculations by two Waterloo research teams. \u201cWhen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215269","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=215269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}