{"id":112166,"date":"2020-08-29T22:11:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T05:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/physicists-just-found-a-new-quantum-paradox-that-casts-doubt-on-a-pillar-of-reality"},"modified":"2020-08-29T22:11:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T05:11:13","slug":"physicists-just-found-a-new-quantum-paradox-that-casts-doubt-on-a-pillar-of-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/physicists-just-found-a-new-quantum-paradox-that-casts-doubt-on-a-pillar-of-reality","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Just Found a New Quantum Paradox That Casts Doubt on a Pillar of Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-just-found-a-new-quantum-paradox-that-casts-doubt-on-a-pillar-of-reality3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Perhaps not, some say.<\/p>\n<p>And if someone <em>is<\/em> there to hear it? If you think that means it obviously <em>did<\/em> make a sound, you might need to revise that opinion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-020-0990-x\">We have found a new paradox<\/a> in quantum mechanics \u2013 one of our two most fundamental scientific theories, together with Einstein\u2019s theory of relativity \u2013 that throws doubt on some common-sense ideas about physical reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Perhaps not, some say. And if someone is there to hear it? If you think that means it obviously did make a sound, you might need to revise that opinion. We have found a new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112166","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=112166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}