{"id":185710,"date":"2024-03-21T22:23:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T03:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/spacetime-is-not-necessarily-continuous"},"modified":"2024-03-21T22:23:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T03:23:30","slug":"spacetime-is-not-necessarily-continuous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/spacetime-is-not-necessarily-continuous","title":{"rendered":"Spacetime Is Not Necessarily Continuous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacetime-is-not-necessarily-continuous2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We perceive space and time to be continuous, but if the amazing theory of loop quantum gravity is correct, they actually come in discrete pieces.<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/lee-smolin\/\">Lee Smolin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We perceive space and time to be continuous, but if the amazing theory of loop quantum gravity is correct, they actually come in discrete pieces. By Lee Smolin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185710","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=185710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}