{"id":677687,"date":"2021-01-08T11:08:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T15:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=677687"},"modified":"2021-01-08T11:08:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T15:08:56","slug":"movers-and-shakers-new-evidence-for-a-unifying-theory-of-granular-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=677687","title":{"rendered":"Movers and shakers: New evidence for a unifying theory of granular materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding the dynamics of granular materials\u2014such as sand flowing through an hourglass or salt pouring through a shaker\u2014is a major unsolved problem in physics. A new paper describes a pattern for how record-sized &#8220;shaking&#8221; events affect the dynamics of a granular material as it moves from an excited to a relaxed state, adding to the evidence that a unifying theory underlies this behavior.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-01-movers-shakers-evidence-theory-granular.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Movers and shakers: New evidence for a unifying theory of granular materials<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding the dynamics of granular materials\u2014such as sand flowing through an hourglass or salt pouring through a shaker\u2014is a major unsolved problem in physics. A new paper describes a pattern&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677687","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=677687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677687\/revisions"}],"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=677687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}