{"id":220432,"date":"2025-08-19T16:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T21:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/scientists-just-split-a-single-photon-heres-what-they-found"},"modified":"2025-08-19T16:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T21:08:06","slug":"scientists-just-split-a-single-photon-heres-what-they-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/scientists-just-split-a-single-photon-heres-what-they-found","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Split a Single Photon. Here\u2019s What They Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-split-a-single-photon-heres-what-they-found2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By splitting a single photon, scientists confirmed that angular momentum is always conserved \u2014 a billion-to-one experiment that reinforces the foundations of quantum physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By splitting a single photon, scientists confirmed that angular momentum is always conserved \u2014 a billion-to-one experiment that reinforces the foundations of quantum physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220432","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=220432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}