{"id":138251,"date":"2022-04-17T20:03:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T01:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/this-is-the-worlds-first-image-of-light-as-both-a-particle-and-a-wave"},"modified":"2022-04-17T20:03:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T01:03:49","slug":"this-is-the-worlds-first-image-of-light-as-both-a-particle-and-a-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/this-is-the-worlds-first-image-of-light-as-both-a-particle-and-a-wave","title":{"rendered":"This Is The World\u2019s First Image of Light as Both a Particle And a Wave"},"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\/mlaVHxUSiNk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, scientists have managed to capture the dual natures of light \u2013 particle and wave \u2013 in a single electron microscope image.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, scientists could only capture an image of light as a particle or a wave, never both at the same time. However, a team from the \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne in Switzerland has overcome the challenges that previous experiments faced by imaging light in this very strange state using electrons.<\/p>\n<p>The key to their success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, scientists have managed to capture the dual natures of light \u2013 particle and wave \u2013 in a single electron microscope image. Until now, scientists could only capture an image of light as a particle or a wave, never both at the same time. However, a team from the \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138251","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}