{"id":132892,"date":"2021-12-22T19:23:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T03:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/scientists-claim-to-entangle-entire-animal-in-quantum-state"},"modified":"2021-12-22T19:23:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T03:23:39","slug":"scientists-claim-to-entangle-entire-animal-in-quantum-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/scientists-claim-to-entangle-entire-animal-in-quantum-state","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Claim to Entangle Entire Animal in Quantum State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-claim-to-entangle-entire-animal-in-quantum-state2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from Europe and Asia claim to have quantum entangled frozen tardigrades, microscopic animals that are <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-loaded-tardigrades-gun\" class=\"\">extremely hardy<\/a> and can withstand practically any conditions or abuse.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2112.07978.pdf\" class=\"\">new controversial preprint<\/a>, the researchers managed the feat by placing frozen tardigrades between two capacitor plates of a superconductor circuit to form a qubit, the quantum equivalent of a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Upon contact, they say, the tardigrade changed the qubit\u2019s frequency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers from Europe and Asia claim to have quantum entangled frozen tardigrades, microscopic animals that are extremely hardy and can withstand practically any conditions or abuse. According to a new controversial preprint, the researchers managed the feat by placing frozen tardigrades between two capacitor plates of a superconductor circuit to form a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132892","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=132892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}