{"id":151299,"date":"2022-11-28T11:22:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T17:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-invent-quantum-watch-a-mind-bending-new-way-to-measure-time"},"modified":"2022-11-28T11:22:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T17:22:49","slug":"scientists-invent-quantum-watch-a-mind-bending-new-way-to-measure-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-invent-quantum-watch-a-mind-bending-new-way-to-measure-time","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Invent \u2018Quantum Watch\u2019, a Mind-Bending New Way to Measure Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-invent-quantum-watch-a-mind-bending-new-way-to-measure-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo our knowledge, the concept of obtaining time fingerprints, and therefore avoiding the need to measure time zero, is completely novel,\u201d Berholts said in an email. She added that the new invention is a watch, not a clock, because \u201ca clock requires keeping track of time\u201d whereas \u201ca watch simply provides the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe quantum watch provides a fingerprint representing a specific time, and hence only requires interaction when initiating and reading out the time,\u201d she explained. \u201cAll other devices require keeping track of time. This differentiation comes from the fact that the quantum watch, unlike all the other clocks, measures times in a different way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo our knowledge, the concept of obtaining time fingerprints, and therefore avoiding the need to measure time zero, is completely novel,\u201d Berholts said in an email. She added that the new invention is a watch, not a clock, because \u201ca clock requires keeping track of time\u201d whereas \u201ca watch simply provides the time.\u201d \u201cThe quantum [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151299","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=151299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}