{"id":228391,"date":"2026-01-05T17:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/in-quantum-mechanics-nothingness-is-the-potential-to-be-anything"},"modified":"2026-01-05T17:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:15:11","slug":"in-quantum-mechanics-nothingness-is-the-potential-to-be-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/in-quantum-mechanics-nothingness-is-the-potential-to-be-anything","title":{"rendered":"In Quantum Mechanics, Nothingness Is the Potential To Be Anything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-quantum-mechanics-nothingness-is-the-potential-to-be-anything.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Try as they might, scientists can\u2019t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what \u201czero-point energy\u201d really means is up for interpretation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try as they might, scientists can\u2019t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what \u201czero-point energy\u201d really means is up for interpretation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228391","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}