{"id":115025,"date":"2020-10-24T20:23:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T03:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/new-time-dilation-phenomenon-revealed-timekeeping-theory-combines-quantum-clocks-and-einsteins-relativity"},"modified":"2020-10-24T20:23:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T03:23:04","slug":"new-time-dilation-phenomenon-revealed-timekeeping-theory-combines-quantum-clocks-and-einsteins-relativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/new-time-dilation-phenomenon-revealed-timekeeping-theory-combines-quantum-clocks-and-einsteins-relativity","title":{"rendered":"New Time Dilation Phenomenon Revealed: Timekeeping Theory Combines Quantum Clocks and Einstein\u2019s Relativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-time-dilation-phenomenon-revealed-timekeeping-theory-combines-quantum-clocks-and-einsteins-relativity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever we have developed better clocks, we\u2019ve learned something new about the world,\u201d said Alexander Smith, an assistant professor of physics at Saint Anselm College and adjunct assistant professor at Dartmouth College, who led the research as a junior fellow in Dartmouth\u2019s Society of Fellows. \u201cQuantum time dilation is a consequence of both quantum mechanics and Einstein\u2019s relativity, and thus offers a new possibility to test fundamental physics at their intersection.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A phenomenon of quantum mechanics known as superposition can impact timekeeping in high-precision clocks, according to a theoretical study from Dartmouth College, Saint Anselm College and Santa Clara University.<\/p>\n<p>Research describing the effect shows that superposition \u2014 the ability of an atom to exist in more than one state at the same time \u2014 leads to a correction in atomic clocks known as \u201cquantum time dilation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The research, published today (October 23, 2020) in the journal <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, takes into account quantum effects beyond Albert Einstein\u2019s theory of relativity to make a new prediction about the nature of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhenever we have developed better clocks, we\u2019ve learned something new about the world,\u201d said Alexander Smith, an assistant professor of physics at Saint Anselm College and adjunct assistant professor at Dartmouth College, who led the research as a junior fellow in Dartmouth\u2019s Society of Fellows. \u201cQuantum time dilation is a consequence of both quantum mechanics [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115025","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=115025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}