{"id":242425,"date":"2026-08-08T22:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T03:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/scientists-tried-to-cut-a-photon-in-halfand-broke-the-rules-of-physics"},"modified":"2026-08-08T22:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T03:06:13","slug":"scientists-tried-to-cut-a-photon-in-halfand-broke-the-rules-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/scientists-tried-to-cut-a-photon-in-halfand-broke-the-rules-of-physics","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Tried to Cut a Photon in Halfand Broke the Rules of Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-tried-to-cut-a-photon-in-halfand-broke-the-rules-of-physics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research shows that cutting a single particle of light spawns photons all the way to infinity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research shows that cutting a single particle of light spawns photons all the way to infinity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242425","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}