{"id":398,"date":"2014-01-15T07:30:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T12:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=398"},"modified":"2014-01-15T11:05:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T16:05:27","slug":"understanding-the-chain-fountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/understanding-the-chain-fountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the \u2018Chain Fountain\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"940\" height=\"529\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_dQJBBklpQQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><br \/>\nBBC presenter and blogger Steve Mould\u2019s mesmerizing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_dQJBBklpQQ\">video<\/a> depicting a \u2018chain fountain\u2019 was viewed over a million times on YouTube since it was posted last February. Now, a team of physicists offers an explanation for the seemingly gravity-defying behaviour of the chain.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1098\/rspa.2013.0689\" target=\"_blank\">Original research article<\/a>\u00a0published in <em>P<\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1098\/rsif.2013.1053\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>roceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>January 15, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name and affiliation of selected author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk\/~jsb56\/\">Joseph S. Biggins<\/a>,\u00a0Cambridge University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC presenter and blogger Steve Mould\u2019s mesmerizing video depicting a \u2018chain fountain\u2019 was viewed over a million times on YouTube since it was posted last February. Now, a team of physicists offers an explanation for the seemingly gravity-defying behaviour of the chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[347,417],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-physics","tag-royal-press"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Broad_chain_closeup.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-6q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}