{"id":140985,"date":"2022-06-22T23:25:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T04:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/theoretical-calculations-predicted-now-confirmed-tetraneutron-an-exotic-state-of-matter"},"modified":"2022-06-22T23:25:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T04:25:09","slug":"theoretical-calculations-predicted-now-confirmed-tetraneutron-an-exotic-state-of-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/theoretical-calculations-predicted-now-confirmed-tetraneutron-an-exotic-state-of-matter","title":{"rendered":"Theoretical calculations predicted now-confirmed tetraneutron, an exotic state of matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theoretical-calculations-predicted-now-confirmed-tetraneutron-an-exotic-state-of-matter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>James Vary has been waiting for nuclear physics experiments to confirm the reality of a \u201ctetraneutron\u201d that he and his colleagues theorized, predicted and first announced during a presentation in the summer of 2014, followed by a research paper in the fall of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever we present a theory, we always have to say we\u2019re waiting for experimental confirmation,\u201d said Vary, an Iowa State University professor of physics and astronomy.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of four neutrons (very, very) briefly bound together in a temporary quantum state or <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/resonance\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">resonance<\/a>, that day for Vary and an international team of theorists is now here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Vary has been waiting for nuclear physics experiments to confirm the reality of a \u201ctetraneutron\u201d that he and his colleagues theorized, predicted and first announced during a presentation in the summer of 2014, followed by a research paper in the fall of 2016. \u201cWhenever we present a theory, we always have to say we\u2019re [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140985","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}