{"id":71946,"date":"2017-08-15T22:47:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T05:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-critical-point-in-breaking-the-glass-problem"},"modified":"2017-08-15T22:47:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T05:47:23","slug":"the-critical-point-in-breaking-the-glass-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-critical-point-in-breaking-the-glass-problem","title":{"rendered":"The critical point in breaking the glass problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-critical-point-in-breaking-the-glass-problem.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Famously described as \u2018the deepest problem in solid state physics\u2019 by Nobel Laureate, Philip Andersen, the glass transition, by which a liquid transforms into a solid without freezing, is shedding its mystique.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, researchers\u2019 understanding has been splintered at best, with mutually incompatible interpretations of the physical processes underlying the emergence of amorphous solids (glasses).<\/p>\n<p>Now a team of scientists from the University of Bristol and Johannes Gutenberg Universit\u00e4t Mainz in Germany may have found the missing fragment, enabling the reconciliation of differing interpretations.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-08-critical-glass-problem.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;08-critical-glass-problem.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famously described as \u2018the deepest problem in solid state physics\u2019 by Nobel Laureate, Philip Andersen, the glass transition, by which a liquid transforms into a solid without freezing, is shedding its mystique. Until now, researchers\u2019 understanding has been splintered at best, with mutually incompatible interpretations of the physical processes underlying the emergence of amorphous solids [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71946","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}