{"id":163162,"date":"2023-05-01T19:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T00:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/physicists-identify-new-quantum-state-called-magic"},"modified":"2023-05-01T19:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T00:22:18","slug":"physicists-identify-new-quantum-state-called-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/physicists-identify-new-quantum-state-called-magic","title":{"rendered":"Physicists identify new quantum state called \u201cmagic\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-identify-new-quantum-state-called-magic2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was Arthur C. Clarke who <a href=\"https:\/\/lab.cccb.org\/en\/arthur-c-clarke-any-sufficiently-advanced-technology-is-indistinguishable-from-magic\/\">famously said<\/a> that \u201cAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic\u201d (although I\u2019d argue that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3oLISDa\">Jack Kirby<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Vjfm3W\">Jim Starlin<\/a> rather perfected the idea). Now, a group of real-life scientists at the <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=RIKEN+Interdisciplinary+Theoretical+and+Mathematical+Sciences&t=osx\">RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences<\/a> in Japan have taken it a step further: by identifying a new quantum property to measure the weirdness of spacetime, and officially calling it \u201cmagic.\u201d From the scientific paper \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prd\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevD.106.126009\">Probing chaos by magic monotones<\/a>,\u201d recently published in the journal <em>Physical Review D<\/em>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was Arthur C. Clarke who famously said that \u201cAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic\u201d (although I\u2019d argue that Jack Kirby and Jim Starlin rather perfected the idea). Now, a group of real-life scientists at the RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences in Japan have taken it a step further: by identifying a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163162","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=163162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}