{"id":8732,"date":"2011-05-18T03:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8732"},"modified":"2011-05-18T03:00:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T08:00:30","slug":"the-last-waterbender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8732","title":{"rendered":"The Last Waterbender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/focus.aps.org\/story\/v27\/st18\">Bending Water with Lasers<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Previously, researchers thought that only lasers with a power of 10 watts or greater&#8211;the kind of lasers used in micro-machining or surgery&#8211;had enough oomph to make water budge. But Olivier and Janine Emile of the University of Rennes in France realized that no one had tried a weak laser in the configuration known as total internal reflection, where the force details come out differently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bending Water with Lasers Previously, researchers thought that only lasers with a power of 10 watts or greater&#8211;the kind of lasers used in micro-machining or surgery&#8211;had enough oomph to make water budge. But Olivier and Janine Emile of the University &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8732\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732","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=8732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}