{"id":97992,"date":"2019-10-30T11:45:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T18:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/scientists-create-solid-light"},"modified":"2019-10-30T11:45:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T18:45:34","slug":"scientists-create-solid-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/scientists-create-solid-light","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Create Solid Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-solid-light.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2014 o.o<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>On a late summer afternoon it can seem like sunlight has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/51029-how-swiftly-the-strained-honey-of-afternoon-light-flows-into\">turned to honey<\/a>, but could liquid\u2014or even solid\u2014light be more than a piece of poetry? Princeton University electrical engineers say not only is it possible, they\u2019ve already made it happen.<\/p>\n<p>In <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prx\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevX.4.031043\">Physical Review X<\/a>,<\/em> the researchers reveal that they have locked individual photons together so that they become like a solid object.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something that we have never seen before,\u201d says Dr. Andrew Houck, an associate professor of electrical engineering and one of the researchers. \u201cThis is a new behavior for light.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2014 o.o On a late summer afternoon it can seem like sunlight has turned to honey, but could liquid\u2014or even solid\u2014light be more than a piece of poetry? Princeton University electrical engineers say not only is it possible, they\u2019ve already made it happen. In Physical Review X, the researchers reveal that they have locked [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97992","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=97992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}