{"id":92678,"date":"2019-06-25T23:23:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T06:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/physicists-create-worlds-first-multiverse-of-universes-in-the-lab"},"modified":"2019-06-25T23:23:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T06:23:51","slug":"physicists-create-worlds-first-multiverse-of-universes-in-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/physicists-create-worlds-first-multiverse-of-universes-in-the-lab","title":{"rendered":"Physicists create world\u2019s first multiverse of universes in the lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-create-worlds-first-multiverse-of-universes-in-the-lab2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park and Towson University are reporting that they have created multiple universes inside a laboratory-created multiverse \u2014 a world first.<\/p>\n<p>To be exact, the researchers created a metamaterial \u2014 like those used to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/140106-duke-university-creates-perfect-centimeter-scale-invisibility-cloak\" title=\"Duke University creates perfect, centimeter-scale invisibility cloak\">fashion invisibility cloaks<\/a> \u2014 that, when light passes through it, multiple universes are formed within it. These universes, called Minkowski spacetimes, are similar to our own, except they more neatly tie up Einstein\u2019s theory of special relativity by including time as a fourth dimension.<\/p>\n<p>While this is rather extraordinary, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/143180-probing-the-matrix-is-our-universe-simulated-and-if-so-by-who\">experimental setup<\/a> is actually quite simple \u2014 though definitely rather unconventional. The multiverse is created inside a solution of cobalt in kerosene. This fluid isn\u2019t usually considered a metamaterial, but lead researcher Igor Smolyaninov and co found that by applying a magnetic field, the ferromagnetic nanoparticles of cobalt line up in neat columns. When light passes through these columns, it behaves as if it\u2019s in a Minkowski universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park and Towson University are reporting that they have created multiple universes inside a laboratory-created multiverse \u2014 a world first. To be exact, the researchers created a metamaterial \u2014 like those used to fashion invisibility cloaks \u2014 that, when light passes through it, multiple universes are formed within [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,4,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-nanotechnology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92678","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}