{"id":212720,"date":"2025-04-29T06:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T11:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/wave-vortices-50-years-on"},"modified":"2025-04-29T06:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T11:14:06","slug":"wave-vortices-50-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/wave-vortices-50-years-on","title":{"rendered":"Wave vortices 50 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wave-vortices-50-years-on2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This commentary celebrates the 50th anniversary of the seminal paper by John F. Nye and Michael V. Berry published in 1974 that described topological wave singularities. Originally termed \u201cwave dislocations,\u201d they are now known as \u201cwave vortices\u201d and occur in diverse systems, such as tides, quantum matter waves, and most notably, light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This commentary celebrates the 50th anniversary of the seminal paper by John F. Nye and Michael V. Berry published in 1974 that described topological wave singularities. Originally termed \u201cwave dislocations,\u201d they are now known as \u201cwave vortices\u201d and occur in diverse systems, such as tides, quantum matter waves, and most notably, light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212720","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}