{"id":186053,"date":"2024-03-26T18:23:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T23:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/physicists-can-now-control-lightning-using-laser-beams-making-advanced-protection-systems"},"modified":"2024-03-26T18:23:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T23:23:20","slug":"physicists-can-now-control-lightning-using-laser-beams-making-advanced-protection-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/physicists-can-now-control-lightning-using-laser-beams-making-advanced-protection-systems","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Can Now Control Lightning Using Laser Beams, Making Advanced Protection Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-can-now-control-lightning-using-laser-beams-making-advanced-protection-systems2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Swiss physicists have achieved a groundbreaking breakthrough in lightning control using laser beams, which could lead to advanced lightning protection systems for critical infrastructure such as airports and rocket launch sites, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/playing-zeus-scientists-use-laser-beam-control-lightning-bolts?utm_campaign=SciMag&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=ownedSocial\" rel=\"nofollow\">Science<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41566-022-01139-z\" rel=\"nofollow\">study<\/a>, led by scientists at the \u00c9cole Polytechnique and the University of Geneva, successfully demonstrated the ability to steer lightning using high-powered lasers. This expensive breakthrough could offer enhanced protection against lightning strikes, which can cause significant damage and pose risks to human safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss physicists have achieved a groundbreaking breakthrough in lightning control using laser beams, which could lead to advanced lightning protection systems for critical infrastructure such as airports and rocket launch sites, Science reports. The study, led by scientists at the \u00c9cole Polytechnique and the University of Geneva, successfully demonstrated the ability to steer lightning using [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186053","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}