{"id":230713,"date":"2026-02-06T13:21:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/the-weird-rules-of-temperature-get-even-stranger-in-the-quantum-realm"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:21:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:21:22","slug":"the-weird-rules-of-temperature-get-even-stranger-in-the-quantum-realm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/the-weird-rules-of-temperature-get-even-stranger-in-the-quantum-realm","title":{"rendered":"The weird rules of temperature get even stranger in the quantum realm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-weird-rules-of-temperature-get-even-stranger-in-the-quantum-realm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can a single particle have a temperature? It may seem impossible with our standard understanding of temperature, but columnist <strong>Jacklin Kwan<\/strong> finds that it\u2019s not exactly ruled out in the quantum realm.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/jacklin-kwan\/\">Jacklin Kwan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a single particle have a temperature? It may seem impossible with our standard understanding of temperature, but columnist Jacklin Kwan finds that it\u2019s not exactly ruled out in the quantum realm. By Jacklin Kwan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230713","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}