{"id":90480,"date":"2019-05-08T21:02:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T04:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/how-a-particle-racing-through-a-vacuum-leaves-a-trail-of-blue-light"},"modified":"2019-05-08T21:02:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T04:02:25","slug":"how-a-particle-racing-through-a-vacuum-leaves-a-trail-of-blue-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/how-a-particle-racing-through-a-vacuum-leaves-a-trail-of-blue-light","title":{"rendered":"How a particle racing through a vacuum leaves a trail of blue light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-a-particle-racing-through-a-vacuum-leaves-a-trail-of-blue-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a quirk of quantum theory, subatomic particles can emit light as they travel through a seemingly empty vacuum.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Blue-tinged Cherenkov radiation could help to illuminate quantum interactions between light and matter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-01430-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a quirk of quantum theory, subatomic particles can emit light as they travel through a seemingly empty vacuum. Blue-tinged Cherenkov radiation could help to illuminate quantum interactions between light and matter. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90480","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}