{"id":107689,"date":"2020-05-26T11:04:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T18:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/for-the-first-time-scientists-achieve-liquid-light-at-room-temperature"},"modified":"2020-05-27T01:37:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T08:37:40","slug":"for-the-first-time-scientists-achieve-liquid-light-at-room-temperature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/for-the-first-time-scientists-achieve-liquid-light-at-room-temperature","title":{"rendered":"For The First Time, Scientists Achieve \u2018Liquid Light\u2019 at Room Temperature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-the-first-time-scientists-achieve-liquid-light-at-room-temperature2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2018<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In June 2017, physicists achieved \u2018liquid light\u2019 at room temperature for the first time ever, making this strange form of matter more accessible than ever.<\/p>\n<p>This matter is both a superfluid, which has zero friction and viscosity, and a kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_condensate\">Bose-Einstein condensate<\/a> \u2014 sometimes described as the fifth state of matter \u2014 and it allows light to actually flow around objects and corners.<\/p>\n<p>Regular light behaves like a wave, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-is-world-s-first-image-of-light-as-both-a-particle-and-a-wave\">sometimes like a particle<\/a>, always travelling in a straight line. That\u2019s why your eyes can\u2019t see around corners or objects. But under extreme conditions, light can also act like a liquid, and actually flow around objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2018 In June 2017, physicists achieved \u2018liquid light\u2019 at room temperature for the first time ever, making this strange form of matter more accessible than ever. This matter is both a superfluid, which has zero friction and viscosity, and a kind of Bose-Einstein condensate \u2014 sometimes described as the fifth state of matter \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107689","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=107689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107729,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107689\/revisions\/107729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}