{"id":121020,"date":"2021-03-29T11:58:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/imaginary-numbers-may-be-essential-for-describing-reality"},"modified":"2021-03-29T11:58:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:58:44","slug":"imaginary-numbers-may-be-essential-for-describing-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/imaginary-numbers-may-be-essential-for-describing-reality","title":{"rendered":"Imaginary Numbers May Be Essential for Describing Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/imaginary-numbers-may-be-essential-for-describing-reality2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new thought experiment indicates that quantum mechanics doesn\u2019t work without strange numbers that turn negative when squared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new thought experiment indicates that quantum mechanics doesn\u2019t work without strange numbers that turn negative when squared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121020","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}