{"id":89570,"date":"2019-04-16T12:04:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T19:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-quest-for-the-most-elusive-material-in-physics"},"modified":"2019-04-16T12:04:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T19:04:17","slug":"the-quest-for-the-most-elusive-material-in-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-quest-for-the-most-elusive-material-in-physics","title":{"rendered":"The Quest for the Most Elusive Material in Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-quest-for-the-most-elusive-material-in-physics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zack Geballe spent months screwing together pairs of polished diamonds at the Carnegie Institution for Science\u2019s Geophysical Laboratory. Theory predicted that squeezed between the diamonds\u2019 tips could be one of the most miraculous substances of modern physics\u2014a material that, at near room temperature, could transport electricity without losing power. He just needed to get the samples to Argonne National Lab outside Chicago to heat them up with laser pulses.<\/p>\n<p>When Argonne beam line scientist Yue Meng turned the lasers on, all four diamonds cracked in half.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a total catastrophe,\u201d Geballe told me while I was visiting him at the Geophysical Laboratory in Washington, DC, this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-quest-for-the-most-elusive-material-in-physics-1833846121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zack Geballe spent months screwing together pairs of polished diamonds at the Carnegie Institution for Science\u2019s Geophysical Laboratory. Theory predicted that squeezed between the diamonds\u2019 tips could be one of the most miraculous substances of modern physics\u2014a material that, at near room temperature, could transport electricity without losing power. He just needed to get the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89570","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}