{"id":132387,"date":"2021-12-14T03:22:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T11:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/split-photons-new-research-predicts-the-existence-of-a-previously-unimaginable-particle"},"modified":"2021-12-14T03:22:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T11:22:52","slug":"split-photons-new-research-predicts-the-existence-of-a-previously-unimaginable-particle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/split-photons-new-research-predicts-the-existence-of-a-previously-unimaginable-particle","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSplit\u201d Photons \u2014 New Research Predicts the Existence of a Previously-Unimaginable Particle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/split-photons-new-research-predicts-the-existence-of-a-previously-unimaginable-particle.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly a century after Italian physicist Ettore Majorana laid the groundwork for the discovery that electrons could be divided into halves, researchers predict that split photons may also exist, according to a study from Dartmouth and SUNY Polytechnic Institute researchers.<\/p>\n<p>The finding that the building blocks of light can exist in a previously-unimaginable split form advances the fundamental understanding of light and how it behaves.<\/p>\n<p>The theoretical discovery of the split photon \u2013 known as a \u201cMajorana boson\u201d \u2013 was published in <em>Physical Review Letters<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a century after Italian physicist Ettore Majorana laid the groundwork for the discovery that electrons could be divided into halves, researchers predict that split photons may also exist, according to a study from Dartmouth and SUNY Polytechnic Institute researchers. The finding that the building blocks of light can exist in a previously-unimaginable split form [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132387","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}