{"id":205324,"date":"2025-02-03T08:33:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T14:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/quantum-experiment-reveals-light-existing-in-dozens-of-dimensions"},"modified":"2025-02-03T08:33:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T14:33:52","slug":"quantum-experiment-reveals-light-existing-in-dozens-of-dimensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/quantum-experiment-reveals-light-existing-in-dozens-of-dimensions","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Experiment Reveals Light Existing in Dozens of Dimensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-experiment-reveals-light-existing-in-dozens-of-dimensions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A paradox at the heart of quantum physics has been tested in an extraordinary fashion, pushing the boundaries of human intuition beyond breaking point by measuring a pulse of light in 37 dimensions.<\/p>\n<p>Led by scientists from the University of Science and Technology of China, a team of researchers developed a method of testing a type of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greenberger%E2%80%93Horne%E2%80%93Zeilinger_state\">Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger<\/a> (GHZ) paradox according to strict criteria using a fiber-based photonic processor.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings clarify how quantum weirdness operates on a fundamental level, potentially informing future applications in quantum technology. Not to mention reaffirming just how useless our brains are at understanding the operations manual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-think-the-infinite-size-of-the-multiverse-could-be-infinitely-bigger\">for our Universe\u2019s engine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A paradox at the heart of quantum physics has been tested in an extraordinary fashion, pushing the boundaries of human intuition beyond breaking point by measuring a pulse of light in 37 dimensions. Led by scientists from the University of Science and Technology of China, a team of researchers developed a method of testing a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205324","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}