{"id":122390,"date":"2021-05-08T16:23:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T23:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/quantum-entanglement-has-now-been-directly-observed-at-a-larger-macroscopic-scale"},"modified":"2021-05-08T16:23:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T23:23:31","slug":"quantum-entanglement-has-now-been-directly-observed-at-a-larger-macroscopic-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/quantum-entanglement-has-now-been-directly-observed-at-a-larger-macroscopic-scale","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Entanglement Has Now Been Directly Observed at a Larger Macroscopic Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-entanglement-has-now-been-directly-observed-at-a-larger-macroscopic-scale3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/entanglement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quantum entanglement<\/a> is the binding together of two particles or objects, even though they may be far apart \u2013 their respective properties are linked in a way that\u2019s not possible under the rules of classical physics.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a weird phenomenon that Einstein described as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-00120-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spooky action at a distance<\/a>\u201d, but its weirdness is what makes it so fascinating to scientists. In <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/372\/6542\/622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new research<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/entanglement\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"quantum entanglement\">quantum entanglement<\/a> has been directly observed and recorded at the macroscopic scale \u2013 a scale much bigger than the subatomic particles normally associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/entanglement\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"entanglement\">entanglement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The dimensions involved are still very small from our perspective \u2013 these experiments involved two tiny aluminum drums one-fifth the width of a human hair \u2013 but in the realm of quantum physics they\u2019re absolutely huge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum entanglement is the binding together of two particles or objects, even though they may be far apart \u2013 their respective properties are linked in a way that\u2019s not possible under the rules of classical physics. It\u2019s a weird phenomenon that Einstein described as \u201cspooky action at a distance\u201d, but its weirdness is what makes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122390","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\/122390","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=122390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}