{"id":216454,"date":"2025-06-23T13:08:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/photons-collide-in-the-void-quantum-simulation-creates-light-out-of-nothing"},"modified":"2025-06-23T13:08:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:08:42","slug":"photons-collide-in-the-void-quantum-simulation-creates-light-out-of-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/photons-collide-in-the-void-quantum-simulation-creates-light-out-of-nothing","title":{"rendered":"Photons collide in the void: Quantum simulation creates light out of nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/photons-collide-in-the-void-quantum-simulation-creates-light-out-of-nothing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using advanced computational modelling, a research team led by the University of Oxford, working in partnership with the Instituto Superior T\u00e9cnico in the University of Lisbon, has achieved the first-ever real-time, three-dimensional simulations of how intense laser beams alter the \u2018quantum vacuum\u2019 \u2014 a state once assumed to be empty, but which quantum physics predicts is full of virtual electron-positron pairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using advanced computational modelling, a research team led by the University of Oxford, working in partnership with the Instituto Superior T\u00e9cnico in the University of Lisbon, has achieved the first-ever real-time, three-dimensional simulations of how intense laser beams alter the \u2018quantum vacuum\u2019 \u2014 a state once assumed to be empty, but which quantum physics predicts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216454","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}