{"id":95237,"date":"2019-08-24T12:43:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T19:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/physicists-have-built-the-worlds-smallest-engine-and-its-seriously-tiny"},"modified":"2019-08-24T12:43:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T19:43:43","slug":"physicists-have-built-the-worlds-smallest-engine-and-its-seriously-tiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/physicists-have-built-the-worlds-smallest-engine-and-its-seriously-tiny","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Have Built The World\u2019s Smallest Engine, And It\u2019s Seriously Tiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-have-built-the-worlds-smallest-engine-and-its-seriously-tiny2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not like the one in your car, but a team of physicists at Trinity College Dublin have built what they claim is the world\u2019s smallest engine. The engine is the size of a single calcium ion \u2014 about ten billion times smaller than an automobile engine.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than powering your next road trip, the atomic engine could one day be used to lay the foundation for extraordinary, futuristic nanotechnologies.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how it works: the calcium ion holds an electrical charge, which makes it spin. This angular momentum is then used to convert heat from a laser beam into vibrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not like the one in your car, but a team of physicists at Trinity College Dublin have built what they claim is the world\u2019s smallest engine. The engine is the size of a single calcium ion \u2014 about ten billion times smaller than an automobile engine. Rather than powering your next road trip, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,219,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-physics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95237","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=95237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}