{"id":82527,"date":"2018-09-12T21:22:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T04:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/in-nature-a-nanoscale-discovery-with-big-implications"},"modified":"2018-09-15T12:19:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T19:19:25","slug":"in-nature-a-nanoscale-discovery-with-big-implications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/in-nature-a-nanoscale-discovery-with-big-implications","title":{"rendered":"In \u2018Nature\u2019: A nanoscale discovery with big implications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-nature-a-nanoscale-discovery-with-big-implications.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent discovery by William &amp; Mary and University of Michigan researchers transforms our understanding of one of the most important laws of modern physics. The discovery, published in the journal <em>Nature<\/em>, has broad implications for science, impacting everything from nanotechnology to our understanding of the solar system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis changes everything, even our ideas about planetary formation,\u201d said Mumtaz Qazilbash, associate professor of physics at William &amp; Mary and co-author on the paper. \u201cThe full extent of what this means is an important question and, frankly, one I will be continuing to think about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Qazilbash and two W&amp;M graduate students, Zhen Xing and Patrick McArdle, were asked by a team of engineers from the University of Michigan to help them test whether Planck\u2019s radiation law, a foundational scientific principle grounded in quantum mechanics, applies at the smallest length scales.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wm.edu\/news\/stories\/2018\/in-nature-a-nanoscale-discovery-with-big-implications.php\">https:\/\/www.wm.edu\/news\/stories\/2018\/in-nature-a-nanoscale-d...ations.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent discovery by William &amp; Mary and University of Michigan researchers transforms our understanding of one of the most important laws of modern physics. The discovery, published in the journal Nature, has broad implications for science, impacting everything from nanotechnology to our understanding of the solar system. \u201cThis changes everything, even our ideas about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82527","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\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82662,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82527\/revisions\/82662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}