{"id":30018,"date":"2016-09-09T22:48:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T05:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/scientists-created-a-substance-that-transforms-infrared-into-visible-light"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:42:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:42:11","slug":"scientists-created-a-substance-that-transforms-infrared-into-visible-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/scientists-created-a-substance-that-transforms-infrared-into-visible-light","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Created a Substance that Transforms Infrared into Visible Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-created-a-substance-that-transforms-infrared-into-visible-light.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists from Germany were able to create a substance that converts infrared light into visible light. This development is a big step in the advancement of illumination technology.<\/p>\n<p>Light is one of the primary things that allows humans to function effectively and efficiently. Indeed, without it, we are basically hopeless; however, a lot of it is\u2026well, missing. Perhaps a better way of articulating it is by noting that a lot of light is invisible to us.<\/p>\n<p>Light, or <a href=\"http:\/\/imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov\/science\/toolbox\/emspectrum1.html\" target=\"_blank\">electromagnetic radiation<\/a>, is actually a really wide spectrum, but only a small portion can be seen by humans. The region that we can see is called the visible spectrum because (duh) it is visible to us.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-created-a-substance-that-transforms-infrared-into-visible-light\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-created-a-substance-that-tran...ble-light\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists from Germany were able to create a substance that converts infrared light into visible light. This development is a big step in the advancement of illumination technology. Light is one of the primary things that allows humans to function effectively and efficiently. Indeed, without it, we are basically hopeless; however, a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30018","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49905,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30018\/revisions\/49905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}