{"id":197022,"date":"2024-10-04T11:23:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T16:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/weird-new-quantum-experiment-sounds-suspiciously-like-time-travel"},"modified":"2024-10-04T11:23:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T16:23:03","slug":"weird-new-quantum-experiment-sounds-suspiciously-like-time-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/weird-new-quantum-experiment-sounds-suspiciously-like-time-travel","title":{"rendered":"Weird New Quantum Experiment Sounds Suspiciously Like Time Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/weird-new-quantum-experiment-sounds-suspiciously-like-time-travel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum mechanics: it\u2019s the realm of science where <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-reverse-time-quantum\" class=\"\">nothing is normal<\/a>, and everything seems to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/physics-laws-not-real\" class=\"\">undermine the fundaments<\/a> of our common understanding of reality. Nonetheless, we simple humans tick on.<\/p>\n<p>But quantum physicists, who pride themselves on staring into the abyss and gleaning its spooky secrets, have just discovered another baffling phenomenon to make your mind melt: \u201cnegative time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2409.03680\" class=\"\">yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study<\/a> covered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/evidence-of-negative-time-found-in-quantum-physics-experiment\/\" class=\"\">by <i>Scientific American<\/i><\/a>, a team of researchers say they\u2019ve observed photons exhibiting this bizarre temporal behavior as the result of what\u2019s known as atomic excitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum mechanics: it\u2019s the realm of science where nothing is normal, and everything seems to undermine the fundaments of our common understanding of reality. Nonetheless, we simple humans tick on. But quantum physicists, who pride themselves on staring into the abyss and gleaning its spooky secrets, have just discovered another baffling phenomenon to make your [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197022","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}