{"id":215773,"date":"2025-06-12T02:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T07:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/physicists-prove-long-held-theory-light-can-be-made-from-nothingness-of-vacuum"},"modified":"2025-06-12T02:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T07:04:06","slug":"physicists-prove-long-held-theory-light-can-be-made-from-nothingness-of-vacuum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/physicists-prove-long-held-theory-light-can-be-made-from-nothingness-of-vacuum","title":{"rendered":"Physicists prove long-held theory light can be made from nothingness of vacuum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-prove-long-held-theory-light-can-be-made-from-nothingness-of-vacuum2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have demonstrated after decades of theorising how light interacts with vacuum, recreating a bizarre phenomenon predicted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/science\/entangled-molecules-quantum-physics-breakthrough-b2460586.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">quantum physics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/topic\/oxford-university\" rel=\"nofollow\">Oxford University<\/a> physicists ran simulations to test how intense laser beams alter vacuum, a state once thought to be empty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/tech\/what-before-big-bang-something-from-nothing-b1994615.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">but predicted<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/topic\/quantum-physics\" rel=\"nofollow\">quantum physics<\/a> to be full of fleeting, temporary particle pairs.<\/p>\n<p>Classical physics predicts that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/science\/black-holes-laser-beam-stop-electrons-light-speed-travel-first-time-radiation-reaction-imperial-college-london-a8200531.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">light beams<\/a> pass through each other undisturbed. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/topic\/quantum-mechanics\" rel=\"nofollow\">quantum mechanics<\/a> holds that even what we know as vacuum is always brimming with fleeting particles, which pop in and out of existence, causing light to be scattered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have demonstrated after decades of theorising how light interacts with vacuum, recreating a bizarre phenomenon predicted by quantum physics. Oxford University physicists ran simulations to test how intense laser beams alter vacuum, a state once thought to be empty but predicted by quantum physics to be full of fleeting, temporary particle pairs. Classical physics [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215773","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}