{"id":211952,"date":"2025-04-21T02:04:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/physicists-found-an-entirely-new-way-to-measure-time"},"modified":"2025-04-21T02:04:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:04:48","slug":"physicists-found-an-entirely-new-way-to-measure-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/physicists-found-an-entirely-new-way-to-measure-time","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Found an Entirely New Way to Measure Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-found-an-entirely-new-way-to-measure-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Determining the passage of time in our world of ticking clocks and oscillating pendulums is a simple case of counting the seconds between \u2018then\u2019 and \u2018now\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Down at the quantum scale of buzzing electrons, however, \u2018then\u2019 can\u2019t always be anticipated. Worse still, \u2018now\u2019 often blurs into a haze of vagueness. A stopwatch simply isn\u2019t going to work for some scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>A potential solution could be found in the very shape of the quantum fog itself, according to a 2022 study by researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Determining the passage of time in our world of ticking clocks and oscillating pendulums is a simple case of counting the seconds between \u2018then\u2019 and \u2018now\u2019 Down at the quantum scale of buzzing electrons, however, \u2018then\u2019 can\u2019t always be anticipated. Worse still, \u2018now\u2019 often blurs into a haze of vagueness. A stopwatch simply isn\u2019t going [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211952","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=211952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}