{"id":229516,"date":"2026-01-21T17:06:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/scientists-found-an-emergent-state-of-matter-that-theory-says-shouldnt-exist"},"modified":"2026-01-21T17:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:06:30","slug":"scientists-found-an-emergent-state-of-matter-that-theory-says-shouldnt-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/scientists-found-an-emergent-state-of-matter-that-theory-says-shouldnt-exist","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Found an Emergent State of Matter That Theory Says Shouldn\u2019t Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-found-an-emergent-state-of-matter-that-theory-says-shouldnt-exist.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Topological materials could usher in a new age of electronics, but scientists are still discovering surprising aspects of their quantum nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topological materials could usher in a new age of electronics, but scientists are still discovering surprising aspects of their quantum nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229516","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=229516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}