“Surprisingly, about 40 minutes into the experiment, the damage reversed course. One end of the crack fused back together as if it was retracing its steps, leaving no trace of the former injury. Over time, the crack regrew along a different direction.

Hattar called it an “unprecedented insight.”

Boyce, who was aware of the theory, shared his findings with Demkowicz.

“I was very glad to hear it, of course,” Demkowicz said. The professor then recreated the experiment on a computer model, substantiating that the phenomenon witnessed at #Sandia was the same one he had theorized years earlier.

Their work was supported by the #DepartmentOfEnergy’s Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences; the National Nuclear Security Administration and the National Science Foundation.”

19/JUL/23 #uap / #MetaMaterial / #MaterialScience (Sandia Labs = 3 hr drive from #Roswell) <https://newsreleases.sandia.gov/healing_metals/>
source https://twitter.com/RobVena/status/1683440413649125376

Leiden University - Physicists develop a metamaterial that can count:

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-physicists-metamaterial.html

#MechanicalMetamaterial #Metamaterial #Rubber #Counting #Bits #MaterialsScience #Physics