{"id":19725,"date":"2015-12-01T23:47:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T07:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/light-bending-microchip-could-fire-up-quantum-computers"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:18:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:18:27","slug":"light-bending-microchip-could-fire-up-quantum-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/light-bending-microchip-could-fire-up-quantum-computers","title":{"rendered":"Light-Bending Microchip Could Fire Up Quantum Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/light-bending-microchip-could-fire-up-quantum-computers.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, scientists have achieved infinite speeds on a microchip. Although this advance will not enable faster-than-light starships, the light-warping technology behind this innovation could lead to new light-based microchips and help enable powerful quantum computers, researchers said.<\/p>\n<p>Light travels at the speed of about 670 million miles per hour (1.08 billion km\/h) in a vacuum, and is theoretically the fastest possible speed at which matter or energy can travel. Exceeding this speed limit should lead to impossible results such as time travel, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/48922-theory-of-relativity-in-real-life.html\">Einstein\u2019s theory of relativity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a way, researchers have overcome this barrier for decades. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/16214-implications-faster-light-neutrinos.html\">Warped Physics: 10 Effects of Faster-Than-Light Travel<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/52898-squeezing-light-quantum-computers.html?cmpid=514631_20151201_55844416&adbid=10153716026004144&adbpl=fb&adbpr=297408889143\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, scientists have achieved infinite speeds on a microchip. Although this advance will not enable faster-than-light starships, the light-warping technology behind this innovation could lead to new light-based microchips and help enable powerful quantum computers, researchers said. Light travels at the speed of about 670 million miles per hour (1.08 billion km\/h) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69087,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725\/revisions\/69087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}