{"id":110044,"date":"2020-07-16T15:25:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T22:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/the-sun-only-shines-because-of-quantum-physics"},"modified":"2020-07-16T15:25:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T22:25:07","slug":"the-sun-only-shines-because-of-quantum-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/the-sun-only-shines-because-of-quantum-physics","title":{"rendered":"The Sun Only Shines Because Of Quantum Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-sun-only-shines-because-of-quantum-physics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earth, as we know it, is only teeming with life because of the influence of our Sun. Its light and heat provides every square meter of Earth \u2014 when it\u2019s in direct sunlight \u2014 with a constant ~1500 W of power, enough to keep our planet at a comfortable temperature for liquid water to continuously exist on its surface. Just like the hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy amidst the trillions of galaxies in the Universe, our Sun shines continuously, varying only slightly over time.<\/p>\n<p>But without quantum physics, the Sun wouldn\u2019t shine at all. Even in the extreme conditions found in the core of a massive star like our Sun, the nuclear reactions that power it could not occur without the bizarre properties that our quantum Universe demands. Thankfully, our Universe is quantum in nature, enabling the Sun and all the other stars to shine as they do. Here\u2019s the science of how it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth, as we know it, is only teeming with life because of the influence of our Sun. Its light and heat provides every square meter of Earth \u2014 when it\u2019s in direct sunlight \u2014 with a constant ~1500 W of power, enough to keep our planet at a comfortable temperature for liquid water to continuously [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,873,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-nuclear-energy","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110044","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}