{"id":8084,"date":"2012-03-26T11:20:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T18:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=8084"},"modified":"2012-03-26T11:20:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T18:20:39","slug":"baths-and-quarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/26\/baths-and-quarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Baths and Quarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iop.org\/education\/higher_education\/stem\/showcasing\/page_54169.html\">David Tong<\/a>, a theoretical physicist at Cambridge, is excited about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soliton\">solitons<\/a>.  And he wants to share that excitement with you, and he&#8217;s willing to climb in a bathtub to do it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Baths and Quarks: Solitons explained\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_Ederft9dkag\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Ederft9dkag\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ederft9dkag\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT8M35S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2012-02-17T17:02:07Z\" \/><\/div><meta itemprop=\"accessibilityFeature\" content=\"captions\" \/><div id=\"lyte_Ederft9dkag\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Ederft9dkag\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Baths and Quarks: Solitons explained<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ederft9dkag\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Ederft9dkag\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Baths and Quarks: Solitons explained\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In &#039;Baths and Quarks&#039;, theoretical physics expert David Tong explains solitons and their effect on quarks and protons. &#039;Solitons&#039; -- solitary waves which can be seen as bubble rings in the bath -- make it impossible for quarks and protons to be separated, thus holding together the universe, he says. &quot;Baths would be so much more relaxing if they weren&#039;t so interesting. Bubble rings - there&#039;s something strange and unnatural about these objects - so structural where you wouldn&#039;t expect to see structure. When I get out of the bath and pull the plug, there&#039;s a world of water that drains away - a vortex - it&#039;s very similar to the bubble rings, and objects like these may just hold the key to one of the most important problems in particle physics [relating to quarks and protons]. My name is David Tong. My job is to understand the beautiful things that I see in the world around me. But to describe them properly, I have to understand them in the language in which nature is written.&quot;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fun video, produced by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iop.org\/\">Institute of Physics<\/a>.  David&#8217;s interest is really in the issue of quark confinement in QCD, one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.claymath.org\/millennium\/Yang-Mills_Theory\/\">Clay Millenium Prize<\/a> problems.  But we get there by thinking about bubbles and vortices and smoke rings.  Worth a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Tong, a theoretical physicist at Cambridge, is excited about solitons. And he wants to share that excitement with you, and he&#8217;s willing to climb in a bathtub to do it. It&#8217;s a fun video, produced by the Institute of Physics. David&#8217;s interest is really in the issue of quark confinement in QCD, one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}