Hong Ding

Gravity works like an invisible photographer. When a piece of metal falls, inside it, according to Albert Einstein and the electromagnetism of James Clerk Maxwell, an electric field is born — that's how spacetime curvature…

In the woven basket pattern, where the strands interlace into triangles, some electrons get stuck in place, like coins wedged in the gaps of the weave. Other electrons roam freely across the whole basket, like light filling a room. Physicists have long sought the moment when these two types of electrons start to influence each other, and now it has been found in the material CsCr6Sb6.