{"id":230395,"date":"2026-02-03T01:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/100-years-before-quantum-mechanics-a-physicist-spotted-its-hidden-clue"},"modified":"2026-02-03T01:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:34:13","slug":"100-years-before-quantum-mechanics-a-physicist-spotted-its-hidden-clue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/100-years-before-quantum-mechanics-a-physicist-spotted-its-hidden-clue","title":{"rendered":"100 Years Before Quantum Mechanics, a Physicist Spotted Its Hidden Clue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/100-years-before-quantum-mechanics-a-physicist-spotted-its-hidden-clue.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long before quantum mechanics existed, a scientist developed a powerful way of describing motion by drawing an analogy between particles and light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before quantum mechanics existed, a scientist developed a powerful way of describing motion by drawing an analogy between particles and light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230395","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=230395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}