{"id":21483,"date":"2016-02-01T10:40:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T18:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/physicists-investigate-the-structure-of-time-with-implications-for-quantum-mechanics-and-philosophy"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:13:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:13:27","slug":"physicists-investigate-the-structure-of-time-with-implications-for-quantum-mechanics-and-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/physicists-investigate-the-structure-of-time-with-implications-for-quantum-mechanics-and-philosophy","title":{"rendered":"Physicists investigate the structure of time, with implications for quantum mechanics and philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-investigate-the-structure-of-time-with-implications-for-quantum-mechanics-and-philosophy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<i>Phys.org<\/i>)\u2014Although in theory it may seem possible to divide time up into infinitely tiny intervals, the smallest physically meaningful interval of time is widely considered to be the Planck time, which is approximately 10<sup>-43<\/sup> seconds. This ultimate limit means that it is not possible for two events to be separated by a time smaller than this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-02-physicists-implications-quantum-mechanics-philosophy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Phys.org)\u2014Although in theory it may seem possible to divide time up into infinitely tiny intervals, the smallest physically meaningful interval of time is widely considered to be the Planck time, which is approximately 10\u201343 seconds. This ultimate limit means that it is not possible for two events to be separated by a time smaller than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21483","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68642,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21483\/revisions\/68642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}