{"id":71956,"date":"2017-08-16T19:02:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T02:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/cern-finds-direct-evidence-of-light-interacting-with-itself"},"modified":"2017-08-16T19:02:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T02:02:26","slug":"cern-finds-direct-evidence-of-light-interacting-with-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/cern-finds-direct-evidence-of-light-interacting-with-itself","title":{"rendered":"CERN finds \u2018direct evidence\u2019 of light interacting with ITSELF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cern-finds-direct-evidence-of-light-interacting-with-itself.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>A new experiment at the Large Hadron Collider has confirmed one of the oldest predictions in quantum physics.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists from the ATLAS experiment at CERN have revealed they\u2019ve observed direct evidence of a process known as light-by-light scattering, in which light interacts with itself at high energy.<\/p>\n<p>This phenomenon is critical to current understanding of quantum electrodynamics, and scientists have sought this \u2018milestone result\u2019 for decades \u2013 but now, for the first time, researchers say have evidence of photons that interact and change directions.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-4797528\/LHC-finds-direct-evidence-light-interacting-ITSELF.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-4797528\/LHC-f...TSELF.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new experiment at the Large Hadron Collider has confirmed one of the oldest predictions in quantum physics. Physicists from the ATLAS experiment at CERN have revealed they\u2019ve observed direct evidence of a process known as light-by-light scattering, in which light interacts with itself at high energy. This phenomenon is critical to current understanding of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71956","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}