{"id":210674,"date":"2025-04-06T01:11:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T06:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/the-first-sightings-of-hofstadters-butterfly-emerged-from-a-happy-accident"},"modified":"2025-04-06T01:11:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T06:11:30","slug":"the-first-sightings-of-hofstadters-butterfly-emerged-from-a-happy-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/the-first-sightings-of-hofstadters-butterfly-emerged-from-a-happy-accident","title":{"rendered":"The First Sightings of Hofstadter\u2019s Butterfly Emerged from a Happy Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-first-sightings-of-hofstadters-butterfly-emerged-from-a-happy-accident2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a first, physicists have directly seen Hofstadter\u2019s butterfly\u2014a long-sought-after fractal in the quantum realm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a first, physicists have directly seen Hofstadter\u2019s butterfly\u2014a long-sought-after fractal in the quantum realm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210674","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}