{"id":104214,"date":"2020-03-24T12:03:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T19:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/new-form-of-matter-discovered-that-has-only-ever-been-seen-in-sci-fi"},"modified":"2020-03-24T12:03:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T19:03:55","slug":"new-form-of-matter-discovered-that-has-only-ever-been-seen-in-sci-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/new-form-of-matter-discovered-that-has-only-ever-been-seen-in-sci-fi","title":{"rendered":"New form of matter discovered that has only ever been seen in sci-fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-form-of-matter-discovered-that-has-only-ever-been-seen-in-sci-fi.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have accidentally discovered a completely new form of matter that works in the same way as the lightsabers used in Star Wars.<\/p>\n<p>A team of physicists were messing around with photons when they managed to get the particles to stick together and form a molecule.<\/p>\n<p>The molecule behaves, they claim, just like a lightsaber by moving the light particles around in a solid mass and is unlike any matter seen before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have accidentally discovered a completely new form of matter that works in the same way as the lightsabers used in Star Wars. A team of physicists were messing around with photons when they managed to get the particles to stick together and form a molecule. The molecule behaves, they claim, just like a lightsaber [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,2008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}