{"id":113134,"date":"2020-09-17T21:26:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T04:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/looking-back-on-the-first-ever-photo-of-quantum-entanglement"},"modified":"2020-09-17T21:26:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T04:26:44","slug":"looking-back-on-the-first-ever-photo-of-quantum-entanglement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/looking-back-on-the-first-ever-photo-of-quantum-entanglement","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back on The First-Ever Photo of Quantum Entanglement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/looking-back-on-the-first-ever-photo-of-quantum-entanglement3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O,.o.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This stunning image captured last year by physicists at the University of Glasgow in Scotland is the first-ever photo of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/entanglement\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"quantum entanglement\">quantum entanglement<\/a> \u2014 a phenomenon so strange, physicist Albert Einstein famously described it as \u2018spooky action at a distance\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>It might not look like much, but just stop and think about it for a second: this fuzzy grey image was the first time we\u2019d seen the particle interaction that underpins the strange science of quantum mechanics and forms the basis of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-computers\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"quantum computing\">quantum computing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/entanglement\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"entanglement\">entanglement<\/a> occurs when two particles become inextricably linked, and whatever happens to one immediately affects the other, regardless of how far apart they are. Hence the \u2018spooky action at a distance\u2019 description.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O,.o. This stunning image captured last year by physicists at the University of Glasgow in Scotland is the first-ever photo of quantum entanglement \u2014 a phenomenon so strange, physicist Albert Einstein famously described it as \u2018spooky action at a distance\u2019. It might not look like much, but just stop and think about it for a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113134","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=113134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}