{"id":108369,"date":"2020-06-08T09:06:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T16:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/physicists-think-theyve-figured-out-a-way-to-save-schrodingers-cat"},"modified":"2020-06-08T09:06:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T16:06:44","slug":"physicists-think-theyve-figured-out-a-way-to-save-schrodingers-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/physicists-think-theyve-figured-out-a-way-to-save-schrodingers-cat","title":{"rendered":"Physicists think they\u2019ve figured out a way to save Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-think-theyve-figured-out-a-way-to-save-schrodingers-cat2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The famous cat-in-a-box thought experiment by Austrian physicist Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger is an illustration of one of the defining characteristics of quantum mechanics \u2014 the unpredictable behaviour of particles at the quantum level.<\/p>\n<p>It makes working with quantum systems incredibly difficult; but what if we <em>could<\/em> make quantum predictions? A team of physicists believes it\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published last year, they demonstrated their ability to predict something called a quantum jump, and even reverse the process after it\u2019s started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famous cat-in-a-box thought experiment by Austrian physicist Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger is an illustration of one of the defining characteristics of quantum mechanics \u2014 the unpredictable behaviour of particles at the quantum level. It makes working with quantum systems incredibly difficult; but what if we could make quantum predictions? A team of physicists believes it\u2019s possible. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108369","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}