{"id":72326,"date":"2017-09-04T10:23:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T17:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/worlds-biggest-x-ray-laser-launched-near-hamburg"},"modified":"2017-09-04T10:23:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T17:23:23","slug":"worlds-biggest-x-ray-laser-launched-near-hamburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/worlds-biggest-x-ray-laser-launched-near-hamburg","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s biggest X-ray laser launched near Hamburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-biggest-x-ray-laser-launched-near-hamburg.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A series of laser beams crisscrossed the skies over Hamburg to mark the launch of the world\u2019s biggest x-ray laser, co-financed by Russia. The device is able to photograph objects at an atomic level and is set to \u201ctranscend\u201d current scientific boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>Since Monday night, 10 green laser beams have lit up the sky from Hamburg to the nearby town of Schenefeld, while the words <em>\u201cWelcome European XFEL\u201d<\/em> projected onto a warehouse next to Hamburg\u2019s new concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie.<\/p>\n<p>The elaborate light display, which could be seen from 24 kilometers away, marked the underground path of the world\u2019s biggest X-ray laser, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xfel.eu\/news_and_events\/news\/index_eng.html?openDirectAnchor=1319&two_columns=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">European XFEL<\/a>, which became operational on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/401767-biggest-xray-laser-hamburg\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/401767-biggest-xray-laser-hamburg\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of laser beams crisscrossed the skies over Hamburg to mark the launch of the world\u2019s biggest x-ray laser, co-financed by Russia. The device is able to photograph objects at an atomic level and is set to \u201ctranscend\u201d current scientific boundaries. Since Monday night, 10 green laser beams have lit up the sky from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72326","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}