{"id":187717,"date":"2024-04-19T22:27:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T03:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/research-reveals-a-surprising-topological-reversal-in-quantum-systems"},"modified":"2024-04-19T22:27:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T03:27:05","slug":"research-reveals-a-surprising-topological-reversal-in-quantum-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/research-reveals-a-surprising-topological-reversal-in-quantum-systems","title":{"rendered":"Research reveals a surprising topological reversal in quantum systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-reveals-a-surprising-topological-reversal-in-quantum-systems2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In principle, one shouldn\u2019t compare apples to oranges. However, in topology, which is a branch of mathematics, one must do just that. Apples and oranges, it turns out, are said to be topologically the same since they both lack a hole\u2014in contrast to doughnuts or coffee cups, for instance, which both have one (the handle in the case of the cup), and thus are topologically equal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In principle, one shouldn\u2019t compare apples to oranges. However, in topology, which is a branch of mathematics, one must do just that. Apples and oranges, it turns out, are said to be topologically the same since they both lack a hole\u2014in contrast to doughnuts or coffee cups, for instance, which both have one (the handle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187717","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\/187717","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=187717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}