{"id":159915,"date":"2023-03-09T11:23:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T17:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/scientists-create-worlds-smallest-ball-game-with-atoms"},"modified":"2023-03-09T11:23:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T17:23:01","slug":"scientists-create-worlds-smallest-ball-game-with-atoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/scientists-create-worlds-smallest-ball-game-with-atoms","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create \u2018world\u2019s smallest ball game\u2019 with atoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-worlds-smallest-ball-game-with-atoms.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The researchers used instruments known as optical traps to throw and catch individual atoms. Scientists have created what they describe as \u201cthe world\u2019s smallest ball game with atoms\u201d. Researchers in South Korea have made atoms \u2013 the smallest unit of matter \u2013 move like balls through the air using a technology known as optical traps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers used instruments known as optical traps to throw and catch individual atoms. Scientists have created what they describe as \u201cthe world\u2019s smallest ball game with atoms\u201d. Researchers in South Korea have made atoms \u2013 the smallest unit of matter \u2013 move like balls through the air using a technology known as optical traps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159915","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=159915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}