{"id":139709,"date":"2022-05-22T17:02:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T22:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/puzzling-quantum-scenario-appears-not-to-conserve-energy"},"modified":"2022-05-22T17:02:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T22:02:42","slug":"puzzling-quantum-scenario-appears-not-to-conserve-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/puzzling-quantum-scenario-appears-not-to-conserve-energy","title":{"rendered":"Puzzling Quantum Scenario Appears Not to Conserve Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/puzzling-quantum-scenario-appears-not-to-conserve-energy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>THE #QUANTUM #PHYSICISTS Sandu Popescu, Yakir Aharonov and Daniel Rohrlich have been troubled by the same scenario for three decades.<\/p>\n<p>It started when they wrote about a surprising #wave #phenomenon called #superoscillation in 1990. \u201cWe were never able to really tell what exactly was bothering us,\u201d said Popescu, a professor at the University of Bristol. \u201cSince then, every year we come back and we see it from a different angle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, in December 2020, the trio published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences explaining what the problem is: In #quantumsystems, superoscillation appears to violate the law of conservation of #energy. This law, which states that the energy of an isolated system never changes, is more than a bedrock physical principle. It\u2019s now understood to be an expression of the fundamental symmetries of the universe\u2014a \u201cvery important part of the edifice of physics,\u201d said Chiara Marletto, a physicist at the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>#quantumphysics #university #Research #Lawofphysics<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>By resolving a paradox about light in a box, researchers hope to clarify the concept of energy in quantum theory.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/puzzling-quantum-scenario-appears-not-to-conserve-energy\">Continue reading \u201cPuzzling Quantum Scenario Appears Not to Conserve Energy\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE #QUANTUM #PHYSICISTS Sandu Popescu, Yakir Aharonov and Daniel Rohrlich have been troubled by the same scenario for three decades. It started when they wrote about a surprising #wave #phenomenon called #superoscillation in 1990. \u201cWe were never able to really tell what exactly was bothering us,\u201d said Popescu, a professor at the University of Bristol. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1496,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-law","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139709","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\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}