{"id":136214,"date":"2022-03-01T07:25:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T15:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/scientists-invent-profound-quantum-sensor-that-can-peer-into-the-earth"},"modified":"2022-03-01T07:25:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T15:25:10","slug":"scientists-invent-profound-quantum-sensor-that-can-peer-into-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/scientists-invent-profound-quantum-sensor-that-can-peer-into-the-earth","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Invent \u201cProfound\u201d Quantum Sensor That Can Peer Into the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-invent-profound-quantum-sensor-that-can-peer-into-the-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A major breakthrough in quantum sensing technology is being described as an \u201cEdison moment\u201d that could, scientists hope, have wide-reaching implications.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-021-04315-3\" class=\"\">new study in <em>Nature<\/em><\/a> describes one of the first practical applications of quantum sensing, a heretofore largely theoretical technology that marries <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/mit-quantum-tornadoes\" class=\"\">quantum physics<\/a> and the study of Earth\u2019s gravity to peer into the ground below our feet \u2014 and the scientists involved in this research think it\u2019s going to be huge.<\/p>\n<p>Known as a quantum gravity gradiometer, this new sensor developed by the University of Birmingham under contract with the United Kingdom\u2019s Ministry of Defense is the first time such a technology has been used outside of a lab. Scientists say it\u2019ll allow them to explore complex underground substructures much more cheaply and efficiently than before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major breakthrough in quantum sensing technology is being described as an \u201cEdison moment\u201d that could, scientists hope, have wide-reaching implications. A new study in Nature describes one of the first practical applications of quantum sensing, a heretofore largely theoretical technology that marries quantum physics and the study of Earth\u2019s gravity to peer into the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136214","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}