{"id":214362,"date":"2025-05-20T18:07:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T23:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/historic-quantum-physics-breakthrough-reveals-what-an-electron-really-looks-like"},"modified":"2025-05-20T18:07:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T23:07:48","slug":"historic-quantum-physics-breakthrough-reveals-what-an-electron-really-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/historic-quantum-physics-breakthrough-reveals-what-an-electron-really-looks-like","title":{"rendered":"Historic quantum physics breakthrough reveals what an electron really looks like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/historic-quantum-physics-breakthrough-reveals-what-an-electron-really-looks-like2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a discovery that\u2019s already turning heads in the scientific world, a team of physicists has achieved what was once thought impossible: they\u2019ve measured the actual shape of a moving electron. This leap forward could not only reshape how we understand matter at the smallest scale\u2014it might also unlock a new era of smarter, faster, and more energy-efficient electronics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a discovery that\u2019s already turning heads in the scientific world, a team of physicists has achieved what was once thought impossible: they\u2019ve measured the actual shape of a moving electron. This leap forward could not only reshape how we understand matter at the smallest scale\u2014it might also unlock a new era of smarter, faster, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214362","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}