{"id":128257,"date":"2021-09-29T03:44:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T10:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/physicists-create-time-reversed-waves-of-optical-light-in-head-spinning-first"},"modified":"2021-09-29T03:44:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T10:44:02","slug":"physicists-create-time-reversed-waves-of-optical-light-in-head-spinning-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/physicists-create-time-reversed-waves-of-optical-light-in-head-spinning-first","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Create Time-Reversed Waves of Optical Light in Head-Spinning First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1WcIejZd__w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2020<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Like watching a movie in reverse, physicists have just demonstrated a new technique for the time-reversal of a wave of optical light.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t mean that they have actually reversed the flow of time; rather, they have found a way to induce an optical wave to retrace a forward path in reverse, returning to its point of origin.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time that time reversal of optical waves has been achieved with full control over all of the degrees of freedom of light simultaneously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2020 Like watching a movie in reverse, physicists have just demonstrated a new technique for the time-reversal of a wave of optical light. That doesn\u2019t mean that they have actually reversed the flow of time; rather, they have found a way to induce an optical wave to retrace a forward path in reverse, returning [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128257","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=128257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}