{"id":149530,"date":"2022-11-05T16:22:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T21:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/how-the-stern-gerlach-experiment-made-physicists-believe-in-quantum-mechanics"},"modified":"2022-11-05T16:22:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T21:22:27","slug":"how-the-stern-gerlach-experiment-made-physicists-believe-in-quantum-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/how-the-stern-gerlach-experiment-made-physicists-believe-in-quantum-mechanics","title":{"rendered":"How the Stern\u2013Gerlach experiment made physicists believe in quantum mechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-the-stern-gerlach-experiment-made-physicists-believe-in-quantum-mechanics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A century ago, the German physicists Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach carried out an experiment that gave an important credibility boost to the new-fangled notion of quantum mechanics. But as <strong>Hamish Johnston<\/strong> discovers, their now-famous experiment succeeded even if the physics on which it was based wasn\u2019t quite right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A century ago, the German physicists Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach carried out an experiment that gave an important credibility boost to the new-fangled notion of quantum mechanics. But as Hamish Johnston discovers, their now-famous experiment succeeded even if the physics on which it was based wasn\u2019t quite right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149530","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}