{"id":131358,"date":"2026-08-04T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/04\/scientists-tried-to-cut-a-photon-in-half-and-broke-the-rules-of-physics-popular-mechanics\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:15:00","slug":"scientists-tried-to-cut-a-photon-in-half-and-broke-the-rules-of-physics-popular-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/04\/scientists-tried-to-cut-a-photon-in-half-and-broke-the-rules-of-physics-popular-mechanics\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Tried to Cut a Photon in Half\u2014and Broke the Rules of Physics &#8211; Popular Mechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikAFBVV95cUxNS2lmU1BzdTM3S0ctdjNBb2RMZHN6Z2FwOF8yS0Z6V1NzR0V5ZFhOQ3NCMnZMTlJ3a3hGalg2OVFrQUhmY0Z0SXJwbHpPOVpQc1JSY1F2N3MzZGY2eTdPd0kyZk1Vb0lPaUNOX0cwU1UzcnBhTEEyS0FqQUVjUjJMTlQ1eC1tUWVreVZrd3c3VHc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Scientists Tried to Cut a Photon in Half\u2014and Broke the Rules of Physics<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Popular Mechanics<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists Tried to Cut a Photon in Half\u2014and Broke the Rules of Physics&nbsp;&nbsp;Popular Mechanics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}