{"id":171354,"date":"2023-09-05T13:27:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T18:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-slowed-down-a-chemical-reaction-100-billion-times-to-see-what-happens"},"modified":"2023-09-05T13:27:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T18:27:21","slug":"scientists-slowed-down-a-chemical-reaction-100-billion-times-to-see-what-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-slowed-down-a-chemical-reaction-100-billion-times-to-see-what-happens","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Slowed Down a Chemical Reaction 100 Billion Times to See What Happens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OzfwyJMGNVg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have been able to observe a common interaction in quantum chemistry for the first time, by using a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-computers\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">quantum computer<\/a> to shadow the process at a speed 100 billion times slower than normal.<\/p>\n<p>Known as a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conical_intersection\">conical intersection<\/a>, the interactions have long been known about, but are usually over in mere <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Femtosecond\">femtoseconds<\/a> \u2013 quadrillionths of a second \u2013 making direct observations impossible to carry out.<\/p>\n<p>A research team from the University of Sydney in Australia and the University of California, San Diego, instead monitored the reaction using a charged particle trapped in a field, allowing them to follow a version of the process that dragged on for a relative eternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have been able to observe a common interaction in quantum chemistry for the first time, by using a quantum computer to shadow the process at a speed 100 billion times slower than normal. Known as a conical intersection, the interactions have long been known about, but are usually over in mere femtoseconds \u2013 quadrillionths [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171354","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}