{"id":15196,"date":"2025-07-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=15196"},"modified":"2025-07-03T03:01:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T03:01:05","slug":"braess-paradox-faster-traffic-july-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/braess-paradox-faster-traffic-july-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paradox That Seems to Violate Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This mechanism shrinks when pulled\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-QTkPfq7w1A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">A bizarre physics puzzle reveals a profound and counterintuitive truth about the world. This principle, known as Braess&#8217;s Paradox, explains why closing a major road can make traffic slower and how adding a shortcut can cause gridlock in an entire city. It governs everything from urban planning to advanced materials that shrink when stretched, proving that sometimes, less is truly more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This puzzle, which seems to violate the laws of physics, explains why closing a road can make traffic move faster.\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/54\/BraessParadoxRoadsExample.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[14139,14147,14134,14148,14142,14140,14150,14136,14153,14144,14149,14137,14146,14135,14154,14152,14145,14133,14141,14143,14132,14151,194,14138,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-15196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-engineering","8":"category-math-and-the-sciences","9":"tag-adding-a-road-makes-traffic-worse","10":"tag-amolf-institute","11":"tag-braesss-paradox","12":"tag-counter-snapping","13":"tag-counterintuitive-science","14":"tag-dietrich-braess","15":"tag-force-displacement-graph","16":"tag-less-is-more-principle","17":"tag-material-that-shrinks-when-stretched","18":"tag-mechanical-paradox","19":"tag-network-optimization","20":"tag-network-theory","21":"tag-new-york-42nd-street","22":"tag-physics-puzzle","23":"tag-power-grid-stability","24":"tag-resonance-dampening","25":"tag-series-and-parallel-springs","26":"tag-spring-puzzle","27":"tag-system-efficiency","28":"tag-traffic-congestion","29":"tag-traffic-paradox","30":"tag-urban-planning","31":"tag-veritasium","32":"tag-why-closing-a-road-makes-traffic-faster","33":"tag-youtube","34":"post_format-post-format-video","35":"cs-entry","36":"cs-video-wrap"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15199,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15196\/revisions\/15199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}