{"id":216227,"date":"2025-06-19T05:22:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/physicists-built-a-trampoline-smaller-than-a-human-hair-and-it-could-rewrite-the-rules-of-microchip-design"},"modified":"2025-06-19T05:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:22:56","slug":"physicists-built-a-trampoline-smaller-than-a-human-hair-and-it-could-rewrite-the-rules-of-microchip-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/physicists-built-a-trampoline-smaller-than-a-human-hair-and-it-could-rewrite-the-rules-of-microchip-design","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Built a \u201cTrampoline\u201d Smaller Than a Human Hair \u2014 And It Could Rewrite the Rules of Microchip Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-built-a-trampoline-smaller-than-a-human-hair-and-it-could-rewrite-the-rules-of-microchip-design.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s strangest trampoline doesn\u2019t bounce\u2014it swings sideways and even glides around corners. But no one can jump on it, because it\u2019s less than a millimeter tall. Imagine a trampoline so tiny it\u2019s just 0.2 millimeters wide, with a surface thinner than anything you\u2019ve ever seen, only about 20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s strangest trampoline doesn\u2019t bounce\u2014it swings sideways and even glides around corners. But no one can jump on it, because it\u2019s less than a millimeter tall. Imagine a trampoline so tiny it\u2019s just 0.2 millimeters wide, with a surface thinner than anything you\u2019ve ever seen, only about 20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216227","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=216227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}