{"id":173646,"date":"2023-10-06T17:37:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T22:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/attoseconds-are-now-nobel-prize-winning-physics-so-what-are-they"},"modified":"2023-10-06T17:37:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T22:37:30","slug":"attoseconds-are-now-nobel-prize-winning-physics-so-what-are-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/attoseconds-are-now-nobel-prize-winning-physics-so-what-are-they","title":{"rendered":"Attoseconds Are Now Nobel-Prize Winning Physics. So What Are They?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/attoseconds-are-now-nobel-prize-winning-physics-so-what-are-they.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Nobel Physics Prize was awarded on Tuesday to three scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/physics\/2023\/press-release\/\">for their work on attoseconds<\/a>, which are almost unimaginably short periods of time.<\/p>\n<p>Their work using lasers gives scientists a tool to observe and possibly even manipulate electrons, which could spur breakthroughs in fields such as electronics and chemistry, experts told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Attoseconds are a billionth of a billionth of a second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nobel Physics Prize was awarded on Tuesday to three scientists for their work on attoseconds, which are almost unimaginably short periods of time. Their work using lasers gives scientists a tool to observe and possibly even manipulate electrons, which could spur breakthroughs in fields such as electronics and chemistry, experts told AFP. Attoseconds are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173646","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}