{"id":35725,"date":"2017-03-30T01:02:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T08:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/new-research-into-light-particles-challenges-understanding-of-quantum-theory"},"modified":"2017-04-25T19:51:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T02:51:53","slug":"new-research-into-light-particles-challenges-understanding-of-quantum-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/new-research-into-light-particles-challenges-understanding-of-quantum-theory","title":{"rendered":"New research into light particles challenges understanding of quantum theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-into-light-particles-challenges-understanding-of-quantum-theory.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered a new mechanism involved in the creation of paired light particles, which could have significant impact on the study of quantum physics.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have shown that when photons \u2014 the fundamental particles of light \u2014 are created in pairs, they can emerge from different, rather than the same, location.<\/p>\n<p>The ground-breaking research could have significant implications for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+physics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum physics<\/a>, the theoretical basis of modern physics. Until now, the general assumption was that such photon pairs necessarily originate from single points in space.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-03-particles-quantum-theory.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;03-particles-quantum-theory.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered a new mechanism involved in the creation of paired light particles, which could have significant impact on the study of quantum physics. Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have shown that when photons \u2014 the fundamental particles of light \u2014 are created in pairs, they can emerge from different, rather [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35725","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48337,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35725\/revisions\/48337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}