{"id":137317,"date":"2022-03-24T18:04:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T01:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/a-gas-made-from-light-becomes-easier-to-compress-as-you-squash-it"},"modified":"2022-03-24T18:04:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T01:04:33","slug":"a-gas-made-from-light-becomes-easier-to-compress-as-you-squash-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/a-gas-made-from-light-becomes-easier-to-compress-as-you-squash-it","title":{"rendered":"A gas made from light becomes easier to compress as you squash it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-gas-made-from-light-becomes-easier-to-compress-as-you-squash-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A gas made of particles of light, or photons, becomes easier to compress the more you squash it. This strange property could prove useful in making highly sensitive sensors.<\/p>\n<p>While gases are normally made from atoms or molecules, it is possible to create a gas of photons by trapping them with lasers. But a gas made this way doesn\u2019t have a uniform density \u2013 researchers say it isn\u2019t homogeneous, or pure \u2013 making it difficult to study properly.<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.de\/citations?user=XCwP0GMAAAAJ&hl=de\">Julian Schmitt<\/a> at the University of Bonn, Germany, and his colleagues have made a homogeneous photon gas for the first time by trapping photons between two nanoscale mirrors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gas made of particles of light, or photons, becomes easier to compress the more you squash it. This strange property could prove useful in making highly sensitive sensors. While gases are normally made from atoms or molecules, it is possible to create a gas of photons by trapping them with lasers. But a gas [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137317","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}