{"id":221440,"date":"2025-09-05T03:24:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/caltech-physicists-discover-double-helix-a-new-equilibrium-state-of-cosmic-plasma"},"modified":"2025-09-05T03:24:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:24:28","slug":"caltech-physicists-discover-double-helix-a-new-equilibrium-state-of-cosmic-plasma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/caltech-physicists-discover-double-helix-a-new-equilibrium-state-of-cosmic-plasma","title":{"rendered":"Caltech Physicists Discover \u201cDouble Helix,\u201d a New Equilibrium State of Cosmic Plasma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/caltech-physicists-discover-double-helix-a-new-equilibrium-state-of-cosmic-plasma.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Caltech experiments uncovered a stable double helix state in plasma flux ropes. The same principles explain cosmic structures such as the Double Helix Nebula. Research into the Sun\u2019s outer atmosphere has led Caltech applied physics professor Paul Bellan and his former graduate student Yang Zhang<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caltech experiments uncovered a stable double helix state in plasma flux ropes. The same principles explain cosmic structures such as the Double Helix Nebula. Research into the Sun\u2019s outer atmosphere has led Caltech applied physics professor Paul Bellan and his former graduate student Yang Zhang<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221440","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=221440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}