{"id":104787,"date":"2020-04-05T00:26:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T07:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/physicists-have-tested-the-speed-of-light-at-the-highest-energies-yet"},"modified":"2020-04-05T00:26:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T07:26:49","slug":"physicists-have-tested-the-speed-of-light-at-the-highest-energies-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/physicists-have-tested-the-speed-of-light-at-the-highest-energies-yet","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Have Tested The Speed of Light at The Highest Energies Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-have-tested-the-speed-of-light-at-the-highest-energies-yet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O,.,o.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Physicists have conducted the most high-energy test of the speed of light yet, and found that it is still constant, everywhere in the Universe, even in gamma rays spewed out of sources <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-highest-energy-photons-ever-have-been-detected-coming-from-the-crab-nebula\">such as exploding stars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This means that, even at the highest energies we can detect, one of the pillars of Albert Einstein\u2019s theory of special relativity still stands firm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow relativity behaves at very high energies has real consequences for the world around us,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lanl.gov\/discover\/news-release-archive\/2020\/March\/0330-hawc.php\">said astrophysicist Pat Harding<\/a> of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O,.,o. Physicists have conducted the most high-energy test of the speed of light yet, and found that it is still constant, everywhere in the Universe, even in gamma rays spewed out of sources such as exploding stars. This means that, even at the highest energies we can detect, one of the pillars of Albert Einstein\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104787","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=104787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}