{"id":124294,"date":"2021-06-26T09:22:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/in-extraordinary-experiment-physicists-bring-human-scale-object-to-near-standstill-reaching-a-quantum-state"},"modified":"2021-06-26T09:22:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:22:41","slug":"in-extraordinary-experiment-physicists-bring-human-scale-object-to-near-standstill-reaching-a-quantum-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/in-extraordinary-experiment-physicists-bring-human-scale-object-to-near-standstill-reaching-a-quantum-state","title":{"rendered":"In Extraordinary Experiment, Physicists Bring Human-Scale Object to Near Standstill, Reaching a Quantum State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-extraordinary-experiment-physicists-bring-human-scale-object-to-near-standstill-reaching-a-quantum-state2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The results open possibilities for studying gravity\u2019s effects on relatively large objects in quantum states.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To the human eye, most stationary objects appear to be just that \u2014 still, and completely at rest. Yet if we were handed a quantum lens, allowing us to see objects at the scale of individual atoms, what was an apple sitting idly on our desk would appear as a teeming collection of vibrating particles, very much in motion.<\/p>\n<p>In the last few decades, physicists have found ways to super-cool objects so that their atoms are at a near standstill, or in their \u201cmotional ground state.\u201d To date, physicists have wrestled small objects such as clouds of millions of atoms, or nanogram-scale objects, into such pure quantum states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results open possibilities for studying gravity\u2019s effects on relatively large objects in quantum states. To the human eye, most stationary objects appear to be just that \u2014 still, and completely at rest. Yet if we were handed a quantum lens, allowing us to see objects at the scale of individual atoms, what was an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124294","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\/124294","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}