{"id":239499,"date":"2026-06-23T23:06:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/a-mixture-from-zero-to-infinity-physicists-split-apart-a-photon-and-ended-up-with-an-improbable-swarm-of-particles"},"modified":"2026-06-23T23:06:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:06:36","slug":"a-mixture-from-zero-to-infinity-physicists-split-apart-a-photon-and-ended-up-with-an-improbable-swarm-of-particles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/a-mixture-from-zero-to-infinity-physicists-split-apart-a-photon-and-ended-up-with-an-improbable-swarm-of-particles","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A mixture from zero to infinity\u2019: Physicists split apart a photon \u2014 and ended up with an improbable swarm of particles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-mixture-from-zero-to-infinity-physicists-split-apart-a-photon-and-ended-up-with-an-improbable-swarm-of-particles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists have found that splitting a photon would lead to a complex state that may change the way we think of particles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have found that splitting a photon would lead to a complex state that may change the way we think of particles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239499","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}