{"id":100731,"date":"2020-01-12T06:22:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T14:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/new-theory-of-quantum-mechanics-shows-matter-is-not-in-the-eye-of-the-observer"},"modified":"2020-01-12T14:48:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T22:48:06","slug":"new-theory-of-quantum-mechanics-shows-matter-is-not-in-the-eye-of-the-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/new-theory-of-quantum-mechanics-shows-matter-is-not-in-the-eye-of-the-observer","title":{"rendered":"New theory of quantum mechanics shows matter is not in the eye of the observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-theory-of-quantum-mechanics-shows-matter-is-not-in-the-eye-of-the-observer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mystery of why quantum matter jumps from a wave-like state to a well-defined particle when it is observed has puzzled scientists for nearly a 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>Known as \u2018the measurement problem\u2019 it is widely seen as the major complication in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/science\/6546462\/The-10-weirdest-physics-facts-from-relativity-to-quantum-physics.html\">quantum theory<\/a> and has led even well-respected scientists to suggest that the human mind may be having some kind of telepathic influence on the fabric of the universe \u2014 our thoughts actually shaping reality around us.<\/p>\n<p>But physicist Jonathan Kerr, who has studied quantum mechanics for 35 years from his cottage in Surrey, believes he has solved the riddle, and the answer is more prosaic than some might have hoped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mystery of why quantum matter jumps from a wave-like state to a well-defined particle when it is observed has puzzled scientists for nearly a 100 years. Known as \u2018the measurement problem\u2019 it is widely seen as the major complication in quantum theory and has led even well-respected scientists to suggest that the human mind [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100748,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100731\/revisions\/100748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}