{"id":9757,"date":"2026-06-12T12:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9757"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:02:21","slug":"cutting-a-photon-in-two-creates-an-infinite-swarm-of-particles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9757","title":{"rendered":"Cutting a photon in two creates an infinite swarm of particles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\nJune 2, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>By definition, elementary particles can&#8217;t be broken into smaller pieces. But in a new theoretical study published in Physical Review Letters, Johannes Skaar and colleagues have revealed what would happen if you tried anyway for a single photon. The answer is deeply strange: attempting to cut a photon in two wouldn&#8217;t produce two smaller photons, but instead conjure an infinite number of them out of thin air.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-06-photon-infinite-swarm-particles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 2, 2026 By definition, elementary particles can&#8217;t be broken into smaller pieces. But in a new theoretical study published in Physical Review Letters, Johannes Skaar and colleagues have revealed what would happen if you tried anyway for a single photon. The answer is deeply strange: attempting to cut a photon in two wouldn&#8217;t produce<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9757\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}