{"id":32884,"date":"2016-12-22T22:50:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T06:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/the-hidden-inferno-inside-your-laser-pointer"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:56:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:56:30","slug":"the-hidden-inferno-inside-your-laser-pointer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/the-hidden-inferno-inside-your-laser-pointer","title":{"rendered":"The hidden inferno inside your laser pointer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-hidden-inferno-inside-your-laser-pointer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you thought that a kid\u2019s room, a Norwegian Nobel Laureate and a laser pointer had nothing in common, two UA physicists are about to enlighten you.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to believe, but after having unraveled many of the laws that make the universe tick, physicists still haven\u2019t reached an agreement on whether something as seemingly simple as \u201chot\u201d or \u201ccold\u201d can be measured in a system under certain circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine you threw an iceberg into the sun and right before it\u2019s melted and gone, you wanted to know, \u2018How hot is that iceberg at that moment?\u2019 Would that be a meaningful question to ask?\u201d says Charles Stafford, a professor in the Department of Physics in the UA\u2019s College of Science. \u201cAccording to traditional physics, it wouldn\u2019t be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-12-hidden-inferno-laser-pointer.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;12-hidden-inferno-laser-pointer.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought that a kid\u2019s room, a Norwegian Nobel Laureate and a laser pointer had nothing in common, two UA physicists are about to enlighten you. It\u2019s hard to believe, but after having unraveled many of the laws that make the universe tick, physicists still haven\u2019t reached an agreement on whether something as seemingly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32884","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65525,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32884\/revisions\/65525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}