{"id":3926953,"date":"2026-07-13T14:03:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/silly-sprinklers-put-in-reverse-to-further-unravel-decades-old-physics-puzzle\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T14:03:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:03:35","slug":"silly-sprinklers-put-in-reverse-to-further-unravel-decades-old-physics-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/silly-sprinklers-put-in-reverse-to-further-unravel-decades-old-physics-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Silly sprinklers&#8217; put in reverse to further unravel decades-old physics puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Each summer, lawns are marked by a familiar addition: &#8220;silly sprinklers,&#8221; whose loops and spirals spew water in creative ways. While seemingly frivolous in their construction, a team of mathematicians has used their design to address a long-standing mystery surrounding the laws of physics.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-silly-sprinklers-reverse-unravel-decades.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each summer, lawns are marked by a familiar addition: &#8220;silly sprinklers,&#8221; whose loops and spirals spew water in creative ways. While seemingly frivolous in their construction, a team of mathematicians has used their design to address a long-standing mystery surrounding the laws of physics. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}