{"id":229473,"date":"2026-01-21T01:42:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/it-started-with-a-cat-how-100-years-of-quantum-weirdness-powers-todays-tech"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:42:50","slug":"it-started-with-a-cat-how-100-years-of-quantum-weirdness-powers-todays-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/it-started-with-a-cat-how-100-years-of-quantum-weirdness-powers-todays-tech","title":{"rendered":"It started with a cat: How 100 years of quantum weirdness powers today\u2019s tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/it-started-with-a-cat-how-100-years-of-quantum-weirdness-powers-todays-tech.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A hundred years ago, quantum mechanics was a radical theory that baffled even the brightest minds. Today, it\u2019s the backbone of technologies that shape our lives, from lasers and microchips to quantum computers and secure communications.<\/p>\n<p>In a sweeping new perspective <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.ady6092\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Science<\/i>, Dr. Marlan Scully, a university distinguished professor at Texas A&amp;M University, traces the journey of quantum mechanics from its quirky beginnings to its role in solving some of science\u2019s toughest challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuantum mechanics started as a way to explain the behavior of tiny particles,\u201d said Scully, who is also affiliated with Princeton University. \u201cNow it\u2019s driving innovations that were unimaginable just a generation ago.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hundred years ago, quantum mechanics was a radical theory that baffled even the brightest minds. Today, it\u2019s the backbone of technologies that shape our lives, from lasers and microchips to quantum computers and secure communications. In a sweeping new perspective published in Science, Dr. Marlan Scully, a university distinguished professor at Texas A&amp;M University, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229473","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=229473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}