{"id":313,"date":"2006-07-05T13:11:59","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T07:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/07\/05\/20000-soccer-pitches-at-the-tip-of-a-hair\/"},"modified":"2006-07-05T13:11:59","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T07:41:59","slug":"20000-soccer-pitches-at-the-tip-of-a-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/07\/05\/20000-soccer-pitches-at-the-tip-of-a-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"20,000 soccer pitches at the tip of a hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong>German <\/strong>scientist has created the world&#8217;s smallest soccer pitch &#8212; so minute that <strong>20,000 of them could fit onto the tip of a human hair<\/strong>.    <\/p>\n<p>The imitation playing field, created by using <strong>nanotechnology<\/strong>, measures <strong>500 by 380 nanometres <\/strong>and can only be seen through a special microscope, said creator Stefan Trellenkamp, whose country is hosting the <strong>2006 World Cup.    <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>I am really, really proud,&#8221; <\/strong>the nanotechnology researcher from the University of <strong>Kaiserslautern <\/strong>told Reuters by telephone.    <\/p>\n<p>The only problem is that I really don&#8217;t know what to do with it. <strong>I can&#8217;t put it on show <\/strong>as no one can see it,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I guess it&#8217;ll just stay in my drawer for the time being&#8221;. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A German scientist has created the world&#8217;s smallest soccer pitch &#8212; so minute that 20,000 of them could fit onto the tip of a human hair. The imitation playing field, created by using nanotechnology, measures 500 by 380 nanometres and can only be seen through a special microscope, said creator Stefan Trellenkamp, whose country is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fun","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}