{"id":275,"date":"2008-05-07T03:44:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T08:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/275"},"modified":"2008-05-07T03:44:32","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T08:44:32","slug":"you-spin-me-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/275","title":{"rendered":"You Spin Me &#039;Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From arXiv, <a href=\"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=401\">rotation of a thin film of water<\/a> when subjected to perpendicular electric fields.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The question is: what\u2019s causing the rotation? The team can easily control the direction and speed of rotation by varying the relative angle and direction of the electric fields, which rules out the possibility that convection is causing the rotation (something that is seen when a field is applied to some thin films of liquid crystals). Neither does adding salt to water change the effect, ruling out the possibility that ion movement directs the flow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/softmatter.cscm.ir\/FilmMotor\/\">Movies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From arXiv, rotation of a thin film of water when subjected to perpendicular electric fields. The question is: what\u2019s causing the rotation? The team can easily control the direction and speed of rotation by varying the relative angle and direction &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/275\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}