{"id":196419,"date":"2024-09-20T01:22:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T06:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/probing-the-quantum-nature-of-reality"},"modified":"2024-09-20T01:22:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T06:22:25","slug":"probing-the-quantum-nature-of-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/probing-the-quantum-nature-of-reality","title":{"rendered":"Probing the Quantum Nature of Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/probing-the-quantum-nature-of-reality2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even those of us who aren\u2019t physicists have an intuitive understanding of classical physics \u2014 we can predict what will happen when we throw a ball, use a salad spinner, or ease up on the gas pedal.<\/p>\n<p>But atomic and subatomic particles don\u2019t follow these ordinary rules of reality. \u201cIt turns out that at really small scales there are a different set of rules called quantum physics,\u201d said Travis Nicholson. \u201cThese rules are bizarre and interesting.\u201d (Think Schrodinger\u2019s cat and Einstein\u2019s \u201cspooky action at a distance.\u201d) <\/p>\n<p>Nicholson is an assistant professor with joint appointments in <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.duke.edu\/\">Physics<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ece.duke.edu\/\">Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/a>. The physicist in him likes doing experiments to advance our knowledge of quantum mechanics; the engineer in him likes figuring out how to harness that knowledge to build quantum computers that will be vastly more powerful than today\u2019s computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even those of us who aren\u2019t physicists have an intuitive understanding of classical physics \u2014 we can predict what will happen when we throw a ball, use a salad spinner, or ease up on the gas pedal. But atomic and subatomic particles don\u2019t follow these ordinary rules of reality. \u201cIt turns out that at really [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196419","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=196419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}