{"id":213500,"date":"2025-05-07T13:27:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/a-first-in-quantum-science-single-atoms-captured-in-free-space-validating-a-100-year-old-theory"},"modified":"2025-05-07T13:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:27:38","slug":"a-first-in-quantum-science-single-atoms-captured-in-free-space-validating-a-100-year-old-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/a-first-in-quantum-science-single-atoms-captured-in-free-space-validating-a-100-year-old-theory","title":{"rendered":"A First in Quantum Science: Single Atoms Captured in Free Space, Validating a 100-Year-Old Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-first-in-quantum-science-single-atoms-captured-in-free-space-validating-a-100-year-old-theory.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists have made a groundbreaking discovery that confirms a century-old quantum theory by capturing images of free-range atoms interacting in space for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have made a groundbreaking discovery that confirms a century-old quantum theory by capturing images of free-range atoms interacting in space for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213500","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}