{"id":145577,"date":"2022-09-03T23:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T04:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/the-interaction-between-energy-and-matter-nothing-less-than-a-quantum"},"modified":"2022-09-03T23:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T04:22:20","slug":"the-interaction-between-energy-and-matter-nothing-less-than-a-quantum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/the-interaction-between-energy-and-matter-nothing-less-than-a-quantum","title":{"rendered":"The interaction between energy and matter, nothing less than a quantum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-interaction-between-energy-and-matter-nothing-less-than-a-quantum.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of us, when we hear the word quantum (plural quanta, from the German word Quanten), might think of health supplements, a sports car, or even the television show <em>Quantum Leap<\/em>. More recently, in Marvel Studios movies such as <em>Ant-Man<\/em>, <em>Doctor Strange,<\/em> and <em>Avengers: Endgame<\/em>, \u201cthe quantum realm\u201d is presented where time flows differently from our ordinary reality and the Avengers may use the subatomic world \u201cto go back in time\u201d, a world that \u201cis smaller than a single atom\u201d (Woodward, 2019, para.20) <\/p>\n<p>We might have also seen or known the meaning of words such as quantum mechanics, quantum computing, and quantum entanglement, but<strong> what is a quantum<\/strong> and how does it relate to our ordinary realm?<\/p>\n<p><strong>A quantum is a word that refers to \u201chow much\u201d; it is a specific amount.<\/strong> For example, if the speed of your car happens to be <strong>quantized<\/strong> in increments of 10 mph, then as you accelerate your car from 10 mph, the speed will jump to 20 mph, without passing through any speed between 10 mph and 20 mph. A speed of 12 mph or 19 mph is excluded because the speed of your car can only exist in those increments of 10 mph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of us, when we hear the word quantum (plural quanta, from the German word Quanten), might think of health supplements, a sports car, or even the television show Quantum Leap. More recently, in Marvel Studios movies such as Ant-Man, Doctor Strange, and Avengers: Endgame, \u201cthe quantum realm\u201d is presented where time flows differently from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1495,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-health","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145577","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=145577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}