{"id":155923,"date":"2023-01-21T09:23:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T15:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-build-a-teeny-tiny-tractor-beam"},"modified":"2023-01-21T09:23:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T15:23:36","slug":"scientists-build-a-teeny-tiny-tractor-beam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-build-a-teeny-tiny-tractor-beam","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Build a Teeny Tiny Tractor Beam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-build-a-teeny-tiny-tractor-beam3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tractor beams make intuitive sense. Matter and energy interact with each other in countless ways throughout the Universe. Magnetism and gravity are both natural forces that can draw objects together, so there\u2019s sort of a precedent.<\/p>\n<p>But engineering an actual tractor beam is something different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tractor beams make intuitive sense. Matter and energy interact with each other in countless ways throughout the Universe. Magnetism and gravity are both natural forces that can draw objects together, so there\u2019s sort of a precedent. But engineering an actual tractor beam is something different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38,1914],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-tractor-beam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155923","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}