{"id":228410,"date":"2026-01-06T05:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-200-year-old-law-of-physics-breaks-down-at-the-atomic-scale"},"modified":"2026-01-06T05:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:15:19","slug":"a-200-year-old-law-of-physics-breaks-down-at-the-atomic-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-200-year-old-law-of-physics-breaks-down-at-the-atomic-scale","title":{"rendered":"A 200-Year-Old Law of Physics Breaks Down at the Atomic Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-200-year-old-law-of-physics-breaks-down-at-the-atomic-scale.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the smallest scales, heat engines can do more than Carnot ever imagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the smallest scales, heat engines can do more than Carnot ever imagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228410","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=228410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}