{"id":600,"date":"2007-08-06T09:07:47","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T08:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=600"},"modified":"2007-08-06T09:07:47","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T08:07:47","slug":"the-unnaturalness-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"The unnaturalness of nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The variations in nature are simply amazing. We all know that there is a metal that is liquid at room temperature: mercury. But do you know about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Non_Newtonian_fluid\">non-newtonian fluids<\/a>?  These are fluids that do not behave like regular liquids.  For example, if subjected to sudden stress, a non-newtonian fluid will solidify.<br \/>\nThese videos show a non-newtonian fluid composed of a mixture of cornstarch and water. In the first, you&#8217;ll see fluid thrown into the air and caught. In the second, you&#8217;ll see a man walk &#8211; well run &#8211;  on a fluid.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cuzn8wh8Fys\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cuzn8wh8Fys\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/f2XQ97XHjVw\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/f2XQ97XHjVw\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The variations in nature are simply amazing. We all know that there is a metal that is liquid at room temperature: mercury. But do you know about non-newtonian fluids? These are fluids that do not behave like regular liquids. For example, if subjected to sudden stress, a non-newtonian fluid will solidify. These videos show a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}