{"id":231986,"date":"2026-02-24T09:03:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/the-quantum-world-reveals-reality-is-made-of-relations-not-objects"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:03:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:03:39","slug":"the-quantum-world-reveals-reality-is-made-of-relations-not-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/the-quantum-world-reveals-reality-is-made-of-relations-not-objects","title":{"rendered":"The quantum world reveals reality is made of relations, not objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-quantum-world-reveals-reality-is-made-of-relations-not-objects.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The everyday picture: a world of objects<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We ordinarily think of the world as a collection of things or individual objects: tables, trees, planets, particles, people.<\/p>\n<p>This way of thinking is not only intuitive but also tremendously useful. Whether crossing a busy street or hunting prey, we survive by <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/0010-0285(92)90007-O\">tracking the motions of objects <\/a>\u2014judging their distances, anticipating their paths, and timing our actions accordingly. Evolutionarily speaking, this is a worldview to which humanity owes its continued existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The everyday picture: a world of objects We ordinarily think of the world as a collection of things or individual objects: tables, trees, planets, particles, people. This way of thinking is not only intuitive but also tremendously useful. Whether crossing a busy street or hunting prey, we survive by tracking the motions of objects \u2014judging [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231986","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}