{"id":121485,"date":"2021-04-13T11:24:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/whoa-scientists-create-real-trek-style-phasers-from-sound-waves"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:24:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:24:42","slug":"whoa-scientists-create-real-trek-style-phasers-from-sound-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/whoa-scientists-create-real-trek-style-phasers-from-sound-waves","title":{"rendered":"Whoa! Scientists create real Trek-style phasers from sound waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whoa-scientists-create-real-trek-style-phasers-from-sound-waves2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2013 o.o<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>We may still have a long way to go before we get a warp drive, but we may not have to wait much longer for our very own <em>Star Trek<\/em>-style phasers.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at NTT Basic Research Laboratories in Japan have managed to build the world\u2019s first phaser, which is essentially a laser-like emission that works with sound instead of light. Like a laser, but not a laser. Aka a phonon laser. Basically: a phaser.<\/p>\n<p>The technology essentially is able to emit a force via sound waves without the use of a laser, which is a major scientific feat. Scientists working on the project say the leap will make it \u201cmuch easier to integrate into other applications and devices.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2013 o.o We may still have a long way to go before we get a warp drive, but we may not have to wait much longer for our very own Star Trek-style phasers. Scientists at NTT Basic Research Laboratories in Japan have managed to build the world\u2019s first phaser, which is essentially a laser-like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121485","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=121485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}