{"id":2294,"date":"2009-04-26T05:04:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T10:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2009-04-26T05:04:09","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T10:04:09","slug":"jumping-the-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2294","title":{"rendered":"Jumping the Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20227054.800-hidden-photons-to-send-secret-emails-through-earth.html?\">&#8216;Hidden photons&#8217; to send secret emails through Earth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You shouldn&#8217;t use a title which implies that the phenomenon has been confirmed, when it&#8217;s still hypothetical.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hidden photons are a class of particles predicted by so-called supersymmetric extensions to the standard model of particle physics. Unlike normal photons, hidden photons could have a tiny mass and would be invisible because they would not interact with the charged particles in conventional matter. This means hidden photons would flit through even the densest materials unaffected.<\/p>\n<p>The only place to spot them is in a vacuum, where they should sometimes &#8220;oscillate&#8221; into normal photons. There are already experiments searching for this effect: the idea is to shine a laser at a wall in a vacuum and see if any of the photons make it through to the other side by transforming into their hidden counterparts and back again. According to Ringwald&#8217;s group, if these experiments succeed it should be possible to scale up the apparatus so that the hidden photons become signal carriers and the &#8220;wall&#8221; becomes any stretch of ground or water.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Hidden photons&#8217; to send secret emails through Earth You shouldn&#8217;t use a title which implies that the phenomenon has been confirmed, when it&#8217;s still hypothetical. Hidden photons are a class of particles predicted by so-called supersymmetric extensions to the standard &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2294\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}