{"id":137616,"date":"2022-04-02T06:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T11:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/bubbles-give-off-weird-light-when-popped-because-of-quantum-physics"},"modified":"2022-04-02T06:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T11:02:18","slug":"bubbles-give-off-weird-light-when-popped-because-of-quantum-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/bubbles-give-off-weird-light-when-popped-because-of-quantum-physics","title":{"rendered":"Bubbles give off weird light when popped because of quantum physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bubbles-give-off-weird-light-when-popped-because-of-quantum-physics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a bubble pops in a liquid, it can produce a flash of light, which we now know is thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/definition\/quantum-physics\/\">quantum mechanics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg15020282-100-science-flashes-of-light-from-the-quantum-world\/\">Sonoluminescence<\/a> is a phenomenon in which small bubbles, produced and fixed in place by an ultrasound wave in a liquid, collapse and make particles of light, or photons. Physicists have known about this process for decades, but the mechanisms behind it weren\u2019t fully known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a bubble pops in a liquid, it can produce a flash of light, which we now know is thanks to quantum mechanics. Sonoluminescence is a phenomenon in which small bubbles, produced and fixed in place by an ultrasound wave in a liquid, collapse and make particles of light, or photons. Physicists have known about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137616","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=137616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}