{"id":235246,"date":"2026-04-15T06:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/quantum-reality-gets-stranger-physicists-put-a-lump-of-metal-in-two-places-at-once"},"modified":"2026-04-15T06:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:10:22","slug":"quantum-reality-gets-stranger-physicists-put-a-lump-of-metal-in-two-places-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/quantum-reality-gets-stranger-physicists-put-a-lump-of-metal-in-two-places-at-once","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Reality Gets Stranger: Physicists Put a Lump of Metal in Two Places at Once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-reality-gets-stranger-physicists-put-a-lump-of-metal-in-two-places-at-once.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have shown that surprisingly large metal particles can behave according to quantum mechanics, existing in multiple states at once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have shown that surprisingly large metal particles can behave according to quantum mechanics, existing in multiple states at once.<\/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-235246","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\/235246","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=235246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}