{"id":295090,"date":"2017-03-31T08:10:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T12:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=09a1671dcc3ae894d8598d667be05fdf"},"modified":"2017-03-31T08:10:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T12:10:43","slug":"researchers-solve-a-mathematical-problem-illustrated-by-soap-films-spanning-flexible-loops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=295090","title":{"rendered":"Researchers solve a mathematical problem illustrated by soap films spanning flexible loops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often used for children&#8217;s fun, soap bubbles are delicate, light-reflecting films that typically last just a few seconds before bursting. But beyond their value to entertain, soap bubbles are physical examples of the rich mathematical problem of minimal surfaces; they assume the shape of the least surface area possible, containing a given volume. Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have recently worked out the solution to a mathematical problem\u2014known as the Kirchhoff-Plateau problem\u2014that is simply illustrated by soap films that span flexible loops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often used for children&#8217;s fun, soap bubbles are delicate, light-reflecting films that typically last just a few seconds before bursting. But beyond their value to entertain, soap bubbles are physical examples of the rich mathematical problem of minimal surfaces; they assume the shape of the least surface area possible, containing a given volume. Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have recently worked out the solution to a mathematical problem&mdash;known as the Kirchhoff-Plateau problem&mdash;that is simply illustrated by soap films that span flexible loops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295091,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295090\/revisions\/295091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}