{"id":142926,"date":"2022-07-26T22:04:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T03:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/physics-mystery-solved-findings-could-revolutionize-our-understanding-of-distance"},"modified":"2022-07-26T22:04:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T03:04:31","slug":"physics-mystery-solved-findings-could-revolutionize-our-understanding-of-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/physics-mystery-solved-findings-could-revolutionize-our-understanding-of-distance","title":{"rendered":"Physics Mystery Solved: Findings Could \u201cRevolutionize\u201d Our Understanding of Distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physics-mystery-solved-findings-could-revolutionize-our-understanding-of-distance2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to traditional thinking, distorting a flat space by bending it or stretching it is necessary to create a curved space. A group of scientists at <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/purdue-university\/>Purdue University<\/a> has developed a new technique for making curved spaces that also provides the answer to a physics mystery. The team has developed a method using non-Hermiticity, which occurs in all systems coupled to environments, to build a hyperbolic surface and a number of other prototypical curved spaces without causing any physical distortions of physical systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur work may revolutionize the general public\u2019s understanding of curvatures and distance,\u201d says Qi Zhou, Professor of Physics and Astronomy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has also answered long-standing questions in non-Hermitian quantum mechanics by bridging non-Hermitian physics and curved spaces. These two subjects were assumed to be completely disconnected. The extraordinary behaviors of non-Hermitian systems, which have puzzled physicists for decades, become no longer mysterious if we recognize that the space has been curved. In other words, non-Hermiticity and curved spaces are dual to each other, being the two sides of the same coin.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to traditional thinking, distorting a flat space by bending it or stretching it is necessary to create a curved space. A group of scientists at Purdue University has developed a new technique for making curved spaces that also provides the answer to a physics mystery. The team has developed a method using non-Hermiticity, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142926","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}