{"id":222446,"date":"2025-09-25T04:24:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/100-years-before-quantum-mechanics-one-scientist-glimpsed-a-link-between-light-and-matter"},"modified":"2025-09-25T04:24:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:24:20","slug":"100-years-before-quantum-mechanics-one-scientist-glimpsed-a-link-between-light-and-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/100-years-before-quantum-mechanics-one-scientist-glimpsed-a-link-between-light-and-matter","title":{"rendered":"100 Years Before Quantum Mechanics, One Scientist Glimpsed a Link Between Light And Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/100-years-before-quantum-mechanics-one-scientist-glimpsed-a-link-between-light-and-matter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving some mathematical graffiti into Dublin\u2019s Broome Bridge in 1843.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving some mathematical graffiti into Dublin\u2019s Broome Bridge in 1843.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222446","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=222446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}