{"id":218705,"date":"2025-07-25T04:19:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/seeing-the-unseen-laser-acceleration-technology-shows-microscopic-particle-behavior"},"modified":"2025-07-25T04:19:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:19:41","slug":"seeing-the-unseen-laser-acceleration-technology-shows-microscopic-particle-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/seeing-the-unseen-laser-acceleration-technology-shows-microscopic-particle-behavior","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the unseen: Laser acceleration technology shows microscopic particle behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/seeing-the-unseen-laser-acceleration-technology-shows-microscopic-particle-behavior.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Trinity College Dublin\u2019s School of Engineering have built a powerful new machine that lets us watch precisely what happens when tiny particles\u2014far smaller than a grain of sand\u2014hit a surface at extremely high speeds. It\u2019s the only machine like it in Europe, and it took over two years to design and build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Trinity College Dublin\u2019s School of Engineering have built a powerful new machine that lets us watch precisely what happens when tiny particles\u2014far smaller than a grain of sand\u2014hit a surface at extremely high speeds. It\u2019s the only machine like it in Europe, and it took over two years to design and build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218705","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}