{"id":144187,"date":"2022-08-16T00:44:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/physicists-finally-measure-a-long-theorized-molecule-made-from-light-and-matter"},"modified":"2022-08-16T00:44:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:44:20","slug":"physicists-finally-measure-a-long-theorized-molecule-made-from-light-and-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/physicists-finally-measure-a-long-theorized-molecule-made-from-light-and-matter","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Finally Measure a Long Theorized Molecule Made From Light and Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-finally-measure-a-long-theorized-molecule-made-from-light-and-matter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists have just caught light acting the part of \u2018glue\u2019 between atoms, in a kind of loosely bonded molecule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have succeeded for the first time in polarizing several atoms together in a controlled way, creating a measurable attractive force between them,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuwien.at\/en\/tu-wien\/news\/press-releases\/news\/ein-molekuel-aus-licht-und-materie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says<\/a> University of Innsbruck physicist Matthias Sonnleitner.<\/p>\n<p>Atoms connect to form molecules in a variety of ways, all involving a trade of charges as a kind of \u2018superglue\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have just caught light acting the part of \u2018glue\u2019 between atoms, in a kind of loosely bonded molecule. \u201cWe have succeeded for the first time in polarizing several atoms together in a controlled way, creating a measurable attractive force between them,\u201d says University of Innsbruck physicist Matthias Sonnleitner. Atoms connect to form molecules in [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144187","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=144187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}