{"id":229357,"date":"2026-01-20T01:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/this-quantum-breakthrough-could-change-how-materials-are-made"},"modified":"2026-01-20T01:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:33:06","slug":"this-quantum-breakthrough-could-change-how-materials-are-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/this-quantum-breakthrough-could-change-how-materials-are-made","title":{"rendered":"This Quantum Breakthrough Could Change How Materials Are Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-quantum-breakthrough-could-change-how-materials-are-made.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have shown that it may be possible to transform materials simply by triggering internal quantum ripples rather than blasting them with intense light. Imagine being able to change what a material is capable of simply by shining light on it. That idea may sound like something out of s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have shown that it may be possible to transform materials simply by triggering internal quantum ripples rather than blasting them with intense light. Imagine being able to change what a material is capable of simply by shining light on it. That idea may sound like something out of s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229357","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=229357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}