{"id":153880,"date":"2022-12-30T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/physicists-discover-a-new-way-to-see-objects-without-looking-at-them"},"modified":"2022-12-30T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T12:25:00","slug":"physicists-discover-a-new-way-to-see-objects-without-looking-at-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/physicists-discover-a-new-way-to-see-objects-without-looking-at-them","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Discover a New Way to \u2018See\u2019 Objects Without Looking at Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-discover-a-new-way-to-see-objects-without-looking-at-them2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ordinarily, to measure an object we must interact with it in some way. Whether it\u2019s by a prod or a poke, an echo of sound waves, or a shower of light, it\u2019s near impossible to look without touching.<\/p>\n<p>In the world of quantum physics, there are some exceptions to this rule.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Aalto University in Finland propose a way to \u2018see\u2019 a microwave pulse without the absorption and re-emission of any light waves. It\u2019s an example of a special interaction-free measurement, where something is observed without being rattled by a mediating particle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ordinarily, to measure an object we must interact with it in some way. Whether it\u2019s by a prod or a poke, an echo of sound waves, or a shower of light, it\u2019s near impossible to look without touching. In the world of quantum physics, there are some exceptions to this rule. Researchers from Aalto University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153880","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}