{"id":195753,"date":"2024-09-06T01:25:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T06:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/can-space-and-time-exist-as-two-shapes-at-once-mind-bending-experiments-aim-to-find-out"},"modified":"2024-09-06T01:25:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T06:25:34","slug":"can-space-and-time-exist-as-two-shapes-at-once-mind-bending-experiments-aim-to-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/can-space-and-time-exist-as-two-shapes-at-once-mind-bending-experiments-aim-to-find-out","title":{"rendered":"Can Space and Time Exist as Two Shapes at Once? Mind-Bending Experiments Aim to Find Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-space-and-time-exist-as-two-shapes-at-once-mind-bending-experiments-aim-to-find-out2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Proposed experiments will search for signs that spacetime is quantum and can exist in a superposition of multiple shapes at once.<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/nick-huggett\/\">Nick Huggett<\/a> &amp; <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/carlo-rovelli\/\">Carlo Rovelli<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a glaring gap in our knowledge of the physical world: none of our well-\u00adestablished theories describe gravity\u2019s quantum nature. Yet physicists expect that this quantum nature is essential for explaining extreme situations such as the very early universe and the deep interior of black holes. The need to understand it is called the problem of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/is-gravity-quantum\/\">quantum gravity<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposed experiments will search for signs that spacetime is quantum and can exist in a superposition of multiple shapes at once. By Nick Huggett &amp; Carlo Rovelli There is a glaring gap in our knowledge of the physical world: none of our well-\u00adestablished theories describe gravity\u2019s quantum nature. Yet physicists expect that this quantum nature [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195753","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}