{"id":146930,"date":"2022-09-24T03:25:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T08:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/between-two-universes"},"modified":"2022-09-24T03:25:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T08:25:38","slug":"between-two-universes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/between-two-universes","title":{"rendered":"Between two universes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/between-two-universes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Mohammad Javad Khojasteh arrived at MIT\u2019s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) in 2020 to begin his postdoc appointment, he was introduced to an entirely new universe. The domain he knew best could be explained by \u201cclassical\u201d physics that predicts the behavior of ordinary objects with near-perfect accuracy (think Newton\u2019s three laws of motion). But this new universe was governed by bizarre laws that can produce unpredictable results while operating at scales typically smaller than an atom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rules of quantum mechanics are counterintuitive and seem very strange when you first start to learn them,\u201d Khojasteh says. \u201cBut the more you know, the clearer it becomes that the underlying logic is extremely elegant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a member of Professor Moe Win\u2019s lab, called the <a href=\"https:\/\/winslab.lids.mit.edu\/\">Wireless Information and Network Sciences Laboratory<\/a>, or WINS Lab, Khojasteh\u2019s job is to straddle both the classical and quantum realms, in order to improve state-of-the-art communication, sensing, and computational capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Mohammad Javad Khojasteh arrived at MIT\u2019s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) in 2020 to begin his postdoc appointment, he was introduced to an entirely new universe. The domain he knew best could be explained by \u201cclassical\u201d physics that predicts the behavior of ordinary objects with near-perfect accuracy (think Newton\u2019s three laws of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146930","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=146930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}