{"id":127428,"date":"2021-09-08T22:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T05:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/1st-sign-of-elusive-triangle-singularity-shows-particles-swapping-identities-in-mid-flight"},"modified":"2021-09-08T22:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T05:22:20","slug":"1st-sign-of-elusive-triangle-singularity-shows-particles-swapping-identities-in-mid-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/1st-sign-of-elusive-triangle-singularity-shows-particles-swapping-identities-in-mid-flight","title":{"rendered":"1st Sign of Elusive \u2018Triangle Singularity\u2019 Shows Particles Swapping Identities in Mid-Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/1st-sign-of-elusive-triangle-singularity-shows-particles-swapping-identities-in-mid-flight2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists sifting through old particle accelerator data have found evidence of a highly-elusive, never-before-seen process: a so-called triangle singularity.<\/p>\n<p>First envisioned by Russian physicist Lev Landau in the 1950s, a triangle singularity refers to a rare subatomic process where particles exchange identities before flying away from each other. In this scenario, two particles \u2014 called kaons \u2014 form two corners of the triangle, while the particles they swap form the third point on the triangle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists sifting through old particle accelerator data have found evidence of a highly-elusive, never-before-seen process: a so-called triangle singularity. First envisioned by Russian physicist Lev Landau in the 1950s, a triangle singularity refers to a rare subatomic process where particles exchange identities before flying away from each other. In this scenario, two particles \u2014 called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127428","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=127428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}