{"id":78979,"date":"2018-05-25T08:45:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T15:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/can-you-see-a-single-photon-with-your-naked-eye"},"modified":"2018-05-26T07:02:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T14:02:00","slug":"can-you-see-a-single-photon-with-your-naked-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/can-you-see-a-single-photon-with-your-naked-eye","title":{"rendered":"Can You See a Single Photon with Your Naked Eye?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-you-see-a-single-photon-with-your-naked-eye.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t always easy to wrap your mind around how light works. It\u2019s a particle, but it\u2019s also a wave, and that wave can be powerful. Photons generally travel en masse \u2014 we\u2019re talking densities in the range of quadrillions per square inch if they\u2019re coming from the sun. But what if instead of the whole wave crashing over you, you were only hit by a single drop of light \u2014 would you know? In other words, is it possible for the human eye to see a single photon?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/curiosity.com\/topics\/can-you-see-a-single-photon-with-your-naked-eye-curiosity\/\">https:\/\/curiosity.com\/topics\/can-you-see-a-single-photon-wit...curiosity\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It isn\u2019t always easy to wrap your mind around how light works. It\u2019s a particle, but it\u2019s also a wave, and that wave can be powerful. Photons generally travel en masse \u2014 we\u2019re talking densities in the range of quadrillions per square inch if they\u2019re coming from the sun. But what if instead of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78979","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79011,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78979\/revisions\/79011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}