{"id":234314,"date":"2026-03-31T02:26:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/pairs-of-atoms-observed-existing-in-two-places-at-once-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:26:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:26:32","slug":"pairs-of-atoms-observed-existing-in-two-places-at-once-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/pairs-of-atoms-observed-existing-in-two-places-at-once-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Pairs of atoms observed existing in two places at once for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pp9n5QwVgu4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Quantum physicists at ANU have observed atoms entangled in motion. \u201cIt\u2019s really weird for us to think that this is how the universe works,\u201d says Dr. Sean Hodgman from the ANU Research School of Physics. \u201cYou can read about it in a textbook, but it\u2019s really weird to think that a particle can be in two places at once.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their experiment using helium atoms represents a major advancement over similar experiments using photons, which are particles of light. Unlike photons, helium atoms have mass and experience gravity. The research is published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-026-69070-3\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Communications<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExperimentally, it\u2019s extremely hard to demonstrate this,\u201d says lead author and Ph.D. researcher, Yogesh Sridhar. \u201cSeveral people have tried in the past to show these effects, and they have always come short.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum physicists at ANU have observed atoms entangled in motion. \u201cIt\u2019s really weird for us to think that this is how the universe works,\u201d says Dr. Sean Hodgman from the ANU Research School of Physics. \u201cYou can read about it in a textbook, but it\u2019s really weird to think that a particle can be in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234314","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\/234314","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=234314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}