{"id":3925673,"date":"2026-04-27T15:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/single-x-ray-photons-reveal-hidden-light-matter-interactions-in-50-nanometer-double-slits\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:02:39","slug":"single-x-ray-photons-reveal-hidden-light-matter-interactions-in-50-nanometer-double-slits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/single-x-ray-photons-reveal-hidden-light-matter-interactions-in-50-nanometer-double-slits\/","title":{"rendered":"Single X-ray photons reveal hidden light-matter interactions in 50-nanometer double slits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A rainbow reveals with colors what otherwise remains hidden: light is &#8220;refracted&#8221; by transparent matter, in this case water droplets. This same physical effect underlies many everyday technologies, like LCD screens and broadband connections based on fiber-optic cables. Light refraction is caused by an interaction between light and the atoms of matter. This brings the light waves slightly out of sync, so to speak. &#8220;X-ray light&#8221; is &#8220;refracted,&#8221; too. But the effect is difficult to measure here.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-04-ray-photons-reveal-hidden-interactions.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rainbow reveals with colors what otherwise remains hidden: light is &#8220;refracted&#8221; by transparent matter, in this case water droplets. This same physical effect underlies many everyday technologies, like LCD screens and broadband connections based on fiber-optic cables. Light refraction is caused by an interaction between light and the atoms of matter. This brings the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}