{"id":137276,"date":"2022-03-23T03:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T10:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/youve-probably-never-heard-of-terahertz-waves-but-they-could-change-your-life"},"modified":"2022-03-23T03:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T10:22:19","slug":"youve-probably-never-heard-of-terahertz-waves-but-they-could-change-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/youve-probably-never-heard-of-terahertz-waves-but-they-could-change-your-life","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019ve probably never heard of terahertz waves, but they could change your life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/youve-probably-never-heard-of-terahertz-waves-but-they-could-change-your-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a gap on the electromagnetic spectrum where engineers can not tread.<\/p>\n<p>The spectrum covers everything from radio waves and microwaves, to the light that reaches our eyes, to X-rays and gamma rays. And humans have mastered the art of sending and receiving almost all of them.<\/p>\n<p>There is an exception, however. Between the beams of visible light and the blips of radio static, there lies a dead zone where our technology isn\u2019t effective. It\u2019s called the terahertz gap. For decades now, no one\u2019s succeeded in building a consumer device that can transmit terahertz waves.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In the far infrared band of the electromagnetic spectrum, engineers are exploring the terahertz gap, which could lead to a wave of faster, more sensitive technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a gap on the electromagnetic spectrum where engineers can not tread. The spectrum covers everything from radio waves and microwaves, to the light that reaches our eyes, to X-rays and gamma rays. And humans have mastered the art of sending and receiving almost all of them. There is an exception, however. Between the beams [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137276","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}