{"id":199533,"date":"2024-11-15T13:28:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T19:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/it-invites-us-to-reconsider-our-notion-of-shadow-laser-beams-can-actually-cast-their-own-shadows-scientists-discover"},"modified":"2024-11-15T13:28:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T19:28:04","slug":"it-invites-us-to-reconsider-our-notion-of-shadow-laser-beams-can-actually-cast-their-own-shadows-scientists-discover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/it-invites-us-to-reconsider-our-notion-of-shadow-laser-beams-can-actually-cast-their-own-shadows-scientists-discover","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It invites us to reconsider our notion of shadow\u2019: Laser beams can actually cast their own shadows, scientists discover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/it-invites-us-to-reconsider-our-notion-of-shadow-laser-beams-can-actually-cast-their-own-shadows-scientists-discover2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After discussing the quirks in 3D modeling software, where a laser beam is treated as a solid object that can cast a shadow, scientists decided to experiment in real life \u2014 and found that laser beams can indeed cast a shadow under the right conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After discussing the quirks in 3D modeling software, where a laser beam is treated as a solid object that can cast a shadow, scientists decided to experiment in real life \u2014 and found that laser beams can indeed cast a shadow under the right conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199533","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}