{"id":232885,"date":"2026-03-09T23:06:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/scientists-just-made-light-do-something-once-thought-impossible"},"modified":"2026-03-09T23:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:06:23","slug":"scientists-just-made-light-do-something-once-thought-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/scientists-just-made-light-do-something-once-thought-impossible","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Made Light Do Something Once Thought Impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-made-light-do-something-once-thought-impossible.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists have recreated the Nobel Prize\u2013winning quantum Hall effect using light, revealing that photons can follow the same strange quantum rules once thought exclusive to electrons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have recreated the Nobel Prize\u2013winning quantum Hall effect using light, revealing that photons can follow the same strange quantum rules once thought exclusive to electrons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232885","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}