{"id":108540,"date":"2020-06-11T11:25:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T18:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/quantum-fifth-state-of-matter-observed-in-space-for-first-time"},"modified":"2020-06-11T11:25:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T18:25:31","slug":"quantum-fifth-state-of-matter-observed-in-space-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/quantum-fifth-state-of-matter-observed-in-space-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Quantum \u2018fifth state of matter\u2019 observed in space for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-fifth-state-of-matter-observed-in-space-for-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paris (AFP) \u2014 Scientists have observed the fifth state of matter in space for the first time, offering unprecedented insight that could help solve some of the quantum universe\u2019s most intractable conundrums, research showed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) \u2014 the existence of which was predicted by Albert Einstein and Indian mathematician Satyendra Nath Bose almost a century ago \u2014 are formed when atoms of certain elements are cooled to near absolute zero (0 Kelvin, minus 273.15 Celsius).<\/p>\n<p>At this point, the atoms become a single entity with quantum properties, wherein each particle also functions as a wave of matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris (AFP) \u2014 Scientists have observed the fifth state of matter in space for the first time, offering unprecedented insight that could help solve some of the quantum universe\u2019s most intractable conundrums, research showed Thursday. Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) \u2014 the existence of which was predicted by Albert Einstein and Indian mathematician Satyendra Nath Bose almost [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108540","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\/108540","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}