{"id":115020,"date":"2020-10-24T18:22:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T01:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/quantum-time-twist-offers-a-way-to-create-schrodingers-clock"},"modified":"2020-10-24T18:22:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T01:22:52","slug":"quantum-time-twist-offers-a-way-to-create-schrodingers-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/quantum-time-twist-offers-a-way-to-create-schrodingers-clock","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Time Twist Offers a Way to Create Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s Clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-time-twist-offers-a-way-to-create-schrodingers-clock2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Albert Einstein\u2019s twin paradox is one of the most famous thought experiments in physics. It postulates that if you send one of two twins on a return trip to a star at near light speed, they will be younger than their identical sibling when they return home. The age difference is a consequence of something called time dilation, which is described by Einstein\u2019s special theory of relativity: the faster you travel, the slower time appears to pass.<\/p>\n<p>But what if we introduce quantum theory into the problem? Physicists Alexander Smith of Saint Anselm College and Dartmouth College and Mehdi Ahmadi of Santa Clara University tackle this idea in a study published today in the journal Nature Communications. The scientists imagine measuring a quantum atomic clock experiencing two different times while it is placed in superposition\u2014a quirk of quantum mechanics in which something appears to exist in two places at once. \u201cWe know from Einstein\u2019s special theory of relativity that when a clock moves relative to another clock, the time shown on it slows down,\u201d Smith says. \u201cBut quantum mechanics allows you to start thinking about what happens if this clock were to move in a superposition of two different speeds.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Physicists describe a way to merge quantum theory with Einstein\u2019s special theory of relativity\u2014and even a method to test it experimentally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Einstein\u2019s twin paradox is one of the most famous thought experiments in physics. It postulates that if you send one of two twins on a return trip to a star at near light speed, they will be younger than their identical sibling when they return home. The age difference is a consequence of something [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115020","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\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}