{"id":240712,"date":"2026-07-12T23:03:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T04:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/light-can-act-as-a-quantum-brake-to-slow-movement-in-the-nanoworld-scientists-discover"},"modified":"2026-07-12T23:03:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T04:03:05","slug":"light-can-act-as-a-quantum-brake-to-slow-movement-in-the-nanoworld-scientists-discover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/light-can-act-as-a-quantum-brake-to-slow-movement-in-the-nanoworld-scientists-discover","title":{"rendered":"Light Can Act as a Quantum Brake to Slow Movement in The Nanoworld, Scientists Discover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/light-can-act-as-a-quantum-brake-to-slow-movement-in-the-nanoworld-scientists-discover.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fundamentals of light continue to fascinate scientists and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-180-year-assumption-about-light-was-just-proven-wrong\">reveal new secrets<\/a> \u2013 including how its effects can be counterintuitive.<\/p>\n<p>Conventional wisdom suggests that light adds energy to heat up particles or set them in motion.<\/p>\n<p>But scientists just caught light doing the opposite: acting as an invisible brake at scales almost too small to imagine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fundamentals of light continue to fascinate scientists and reveal new secrets \u2013 including how its effects can be counterintuitive. Conventional wisdom suggests that light adds energy to heat up particles or set them in motion. But scientists just caught light doing the opposite: acting as an invisible brake at scales almost too small to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240712","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\/240712","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}