{"id":222668,"date":"2025-09-30T04:28:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/scientists-discover-virtual-charges-that-exist-only-when-light-hits"},"modified":"2025-09-30T04:28:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:28:03","slug":"scientists-discover-virtual-charges-that-exist-only-when-light-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/scientists-discover-virtual-charges-that-exist-only-when-light-hits","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover \u201cVirtual Charges\u201d That Exist Only When Light Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-virtual-charges-that-exist-only-when-light-hits2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study led by Politecnico di Milano, recently published in Nature Photonics, highlights the crucial role of virtual charges in insulating materials. One of the biggest challenges in modern physics and photonics is understanding how materials behave when struck by extremely brief flashes of light<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study led by Politecnico di Milano, recently published in Nature Photonics, highlights the crucial role of virtual charges in insulating materials. One of the biggest challenges in modern physics and photonics is understanding how materials behave when struck by extremely brief flashes of light<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222668","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=222668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}