{"id":208906,"date":"2025-03-17T12:13:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-turn-light-into-a-supersolid-for-the-1st-time-ever-what-that-means-and-why-it-matters"},"modified":"2025-03-17T12:13:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:13:35","slug":"scientists-turn-light-into-a-supersolid-for-the-1st-time-ever-what-that-means-and-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-turn-light-into-a-supersolid-for-the-1st-time-ever-what-that-means-and-why-it-matters","title":{"rendered":"Scientists turn light into a \u2018supersolid\u2019 for the 1st time ever: What that means, and why it matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-turn-light-into-a-supersolid-for-the-1st-time-ever-what-that-means-and-why-it-matters.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, researchers transformed light into a quantum crystalline structure to create a \u201csupersolid\u201d that\u2019s both solid and liquid at the same time. Here\u2019s what that means, and why it\u2019s such a big step forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, researchers transformed light into a quantum crystalline structure to create a \u201csupersolid\u201d that\u2019s both solid and liquid at the same time. Here\u2019s what that means, and why it\u2019s such a big step forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208906","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}