{"id":219113,"date":"2025-07-31T04:23:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/physicists-still-divided-about-quantum-world-100-years-on"},"modified":"2025-07-31T04:23:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:23:28","slug":"physicists-still-divided-about-quantum-world-100-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/physicists-still-divided-about-quantum-world-100-years-on","title":{"rendered":"Physicists still divided about quantum world, 100 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-still-divided-about-quantum-world-100-years-on.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The theory of quantum mechanics has transformed daily life since being proposed a century ago, yet how it works remains a mystery\u2014and physicists are deeply divided about what is actually going on, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-025-02342-y\" target=\"_blank\">survey<\/a> in the journal <i>Nature<\/i> said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShut up and calculate!\u201d is a famous quote in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+physics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum physics<\/a> that illustrates the frustration of scientists struggling to unravel one of the world\u2019s great paradoxes.<\/p>\n<p>For the last century, equations based on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+mechanics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum mechanics<\/a> have consistently and accurately described the behavior of extremely small objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theory of quantum mechanics has transformed daily life since being proposed a century ago, yet how it works remains a mystery\u2014and physicists are deeply divided about what is actually going on, a survey in the journal Nature said Wednesday. \u201cShut up and calculate!\u201d is a famous quote in quantum physics that illustrates the frustration [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219113","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}