{"id":153777,"date":"2022-12-28T19:22:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T01:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/quantum-physics-lets-researchers-see-things-without-looking-at-them"},"modified":"2022-12-28T19:22:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T01:22:38","slug":"quantum-physics-lets-researchers-see-things-without-looking-at-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/quantum-physics-lets-researchers-see-things-without-looking-at-them","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Physics Lets Researchers See \u201cThings\u201d Without Looking At Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-physics-lets-researchers-see-things-without-looking-at-them2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a general rule, if you want sight, you need light. You\u2019re only reading this right now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nei.nih.gov\/learn-about-eye-health\/healthy-vision\/how-eyes-work\" target=\"_blank\">thanks to<\/a> the light from your screen being beamed onto your retinas, converted into electrical signals, and sent up the optic nerve for your brain to interpret as a bunch of words and images.<\/p>\n<p>But what if you could see things without all that rigamarole? It might sound impossible \u2013 perhaps even counter to the very definition of sight \u2013 but thanks to the bizarre world of quantum mechanics, it\u2019s actually perfectly possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the inception of quantum mechanics, the quest to understand measurements has been a rich source of intellectual fascination,\u201d notes a new paper published this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a general rule, if you want sight, you need light. You\u2019re only reading this right now thanks to the light from your screen being beamed onto your retinas, converted into electrical signals, and sent up the optic nerve for your brain to interpret as a bunch of words and images. But what if you [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153777","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=153777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}