{"id":133913,"date":"2022-01-11T18:22:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T02:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/scientists-say-the-universe-itself-may-be-pixelated"},"modified":"2022-01-11T18:22:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T02:22:16","slug":"scientists-say-the-universe-itself-may-be-pixelated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/scientists-say-the-universe-itself-may-be-pixelated","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say the Universe Itself May Be \u201cPixelated\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-the-universe-itself-may-be-pixelated2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a brain teaser for you: scientists are suggesting spacetime may be made out of individual \u201cspacetime pixels,\u201d instead of being smooth and continuous like it seems.<\/p>\n<p>Rana Adhikari, a professor of physics at Caltech, suggested in a <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/is-space-pixelated-the-quest-for-quantum-gravity\/\" class=\"\">new press blurb<\/a> that these pixels would be \u201cso small that if you were to enlarge things so that it becomes the size of a grain of sand, then atoms would be as large as galaxies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adhikari\u2019s goal is to reconcile the conventional laws of physics, as determined by general relativity, with the more mysterious world of quantum physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a brain teaser for you: scientists are suggesting spacetime may be made out of individual \u201cspacetime pixels,\u201d instead of being smooth and continuous like it seems. Rana Adhikari, a professor of physics at Caltech, suggested in a new press blurb that these pixels would be \u201cso small that if you were to enlarge things [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133913","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\/133913","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}