{"id":37719,"date":"2022-11-11T06:51:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T12:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=37719"},"modified":"2022-11-11T06:51:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T12:51:18","slug":"word-of-the-day-838","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/11\/11\/word-of-the-day-838\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Photophoresis<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is a known effect for levitating flat objects with two sides called photophoresis. This occurs when one of the sides absorbs lots of light and the other very little, creating a difference in temperature. Just like how temperature differences in the atmosphere cause winds, this temperature gradient makes molecules move in such a way as to create a lifting force on the object.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keith.seas.harvard.edu\/people\/ben-schafer\">Benjamin Schafer<\/a>\u00a0at Harvard University in Massachusetts and his colleagues designed a device that could use photophoresis to levitate small atmospheric sensors that wouldn\u2019t need motors or batteries to stay aloft.<em> [&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2343594-weather-sensors-could-float-forever-in-the-stratosphere-using-sunlight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weather sensors could float forever in the stratosphere using sunlight<\/a>,&#8221; Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, <\/em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><em> (29 October 2022, paywall)]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photophoresis: There is a known effect for levitating flat objects with two sides called photophoresis. This occurs when one of the sides absorbs lots of light and the other very little, creating a difference in temperature. Just like how temperature differences in the atmosphere cause winds, this temperature gradient makes \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/11\/11\/word-of-the-day-838\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37720,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37719\/revisions\/37720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}