{"id":3927335,"date":"2026-08-04T17:02:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/molecular-orbitals-imaged-in-3d-opening-path-to-femtosecond-videos\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T17:02:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:02:34","slug":"molecular-orbitals-imaged-in-3d-opening-path-to-femtosecond-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/molecular-orbitals-imaged-in-3d-opening-path-to-femtosecond-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Molecular orbitals imaged in 3D, opening path to femtosecond videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>One of the most famous and intriguing results of quantum mechanics is the finding that fundamental particles, such as electrons, cannot be pinned down to one single location. Instead, a particle is described by its &#8220;wavefunction,&#8221; which allows researchers to derive probability distributions\u2014a sort of mathematical map that shows the possibilities\u2014of fundamental properties such as its position and momentum. In particular, the electron wavefunctions within a molecule, known as &#8220;molecular orbitals,&#8221; carry information about how the molecule interacts with its surroundings. For example, they show how it may absorb light or how a chemical reaction might take place.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-molecular-orbitals-imaged-3d-path.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most famous and intriguing results of quantum mechanics is the finding that fundamental particles, such as electrons, cannot be pinned down to one single location. Instead, a particle is described by its &#8220;wavefunction,&#8221; which allows researchers to derive probability distributions\u2014a sort of mathematical map that shows the possibilities\u2014of fundamental properties such as [&#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-3927335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}