{"id":114482,"date":"2020-10-15T18:45:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T01:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/could-schrodingers-cat-exist-in-real-life-our-research-may-soon-provide-the-answer"},"modified":"2020-10-15T18:45:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T01:45:19","slug":"could-schrodingers-cat-exist-in-real-life-our-research-may-soon-provide-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/could-schrodingers-cat-exist-in-real-life-our-research-may-soon-provide-the-answer","title":{"rendered":"Could Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat exist in real life? Our research may soon provide the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UpGO2kuQyZw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever been in more than one place at the same time? If you\u2019re much bigger than an atom, the answer will be no.<\/p>\n<p>But atoms and particles are governed by the rules of quantum mechanics, in which several different possible situations can coexist at once.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum systems are ruled by what\u2019s called a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/wave+function\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">wave function<\/a>\u201d: a mathematical object that describes the probabilities of these different possible situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever been in more than one place at the same time? If you\u2019re much bigger than an atom, the answer will be no. But atoms and particles are governed by the rules of quantum mechanics, in which several different possible situations can coexist at once. Quantum systems are ruled by what\u2019s called 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":[2229,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114482","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=114482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}