{"id":93159,"date":"2019-07-05T09:03:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T16:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/physicists-find-a-new-way-to-make-hybrid-particles-that-are-part-matter-part-light"},"modified":"2019-07-05T09:03:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T16:03:01","slug":"physicists-find-a-new-way-to-make-hybrid-particles-that-are-part-matter-part-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/physicists-find-a-new-way-to-make-hybrid-particles-that-are-part-matter-part-light","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Find a New Way to Make Hybrid \u2018Particles\u2019 That Are Part-Matter, Part-Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-find-a-new-way-to-make-hybrid-particles-that-are-part-matter-part-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photons \u2014 those fundamental particles of light \u2014 have a slew of interesting properties, including the fact they don\u2019t tend to crash into one another. That hasn\u2019t stopped physicists from trying, though.<\/p>\n<p>University of Chicago physicists have now come up with a new, highly flexible way to make photons behave more like the particles that make up matter. It might not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/we-re-one-step-closer-to-healing-wounds-with-tiny-light-sabres\">give us lightsabers<\/a>, but making photons collide could still lead to some fantastic technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The trick to getting particles of light \u2014 which have no mass \u2014 to acknowledge one another\u2019s existence is to have them meet in the quiet confines of an atom, and combine their properties with those of an electron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photons \u2014 those fundamental particles of light \u2014 have a slew of interesting properties, including the fact they don\u2019t tend to crash into one another. That hasn\u2019t stopped physicists from trying, though. University of Chicago physicists have now come up with a new, highly flexible way to make photons behave more like the particles that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,2008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93159","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}