{"id":125019,"date":"2021-07-16T00:23:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T07:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/physicists-levitate-a-glass-nanosphere-pushing-it-into-the-realm-of-quantum-mechanics"},"modified":"2021-07-16T00:23:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T07:23:17","slug":"physicists-levitate-a-glass-nanosphere-pushing-it-into-the-realm-of-quantum-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/physicists-levitate-a-glass-nanosphere-pushing-it-into-the-realm-of-quantum-mechanics","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Levitate a Glass Nanosphere, Pushing It Into The Realm of Quantum Mechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-levitate-a-glass-nanosphere-pushing-it-into-the-realm-of-quantum-mechanics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_mechanics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quantum mechanics<\/a> deals with the behavior of the Universe at the super-small scale: atoms and subatomic particles that operate in ways that classical physics can\u2019t explain. In order to explore this tension between the quantum and the classical, scientists are attempting to get larger and larger objects to behave in a quantum-like way.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of this particular study, the object in question is a tiny glass nanosphere, 100 nanometers in diameter \u2013 about a thousand times smaller than the thickness of a human hair. To our minds that\u2019s very, very small, but in terms of quantum physics, it\u2019s actually rather huge, made up to 10 million atoms.<\/p>\n<p>Pushing such a nanosphere into the realm of quantum mechanics is actually a huge achievement, and yet that\u2019s exactly what physicists have now accomplished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum mechanics deals with the behavior of the Universe at the super-small scale: atoms and subatomic particles that operate in ways that classical physics can\u2019t explain. In order to explore this tension between the quantum and the classical, scientists are attempting to get larger and larger objects to behave in a quantum-like way. In the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125019","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=125019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}