{"id":238877,"date":"2026-06-13T06:14:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T11:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/scientist-creates-mini-universe-to-measure-time-without-a-clock"},"modified":"2026-06-13T06:14:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T11:14:44","slug":"scientist-creates-mini-universe-to-measure-time-without-a-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/scientist-creates-mini-universe-to-measure-time-without-a-clock","title":{"rendered":"Scientist creates \u2018mini\u2011universe\u2019 to measure time without a clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientist-creates-mini-universe-to-measure-time-without-a-clock2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A University of Birmingham scientist has built a \u201cmini-universe\u201d that takes a step toward answering one of science\u2019s biggest questions: \u201cWhat is time?\u201d Publishing his findings in <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prresearch\/abstract\/10.1103\/1h9j-df4k\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Physical Review Research<\/i><\/a>, Professor Giovanni Barontini shows how it is possible to measure the flow of time without using a clock at all. The new findings provide a scientific model in which a version of time emerges from the experiment itself.<\/p>\n<p>Some theories of physics, such as the Wheeler\u2013DeWitt equation, suggest that, at its deepest level, the universe has no built-in time but exists as a single, unchanging quantum state in which particles exhibit both wave-like and particle-like properties. It treats the universe as a whole with no external clock, and any sense of time must emerge from internal relationships between parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A University of Birmingham scientist has built a \u201cmini-universe\u201d that takes a step toward answering one of science\u2019s biggest questions: \u201cWhat is time?\u201d Publishing his findings in Physical Review Research, Professor Giovanni Barontini shows how it is possible to measure the flow of time without using a clock at all. The new findings provide a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238877","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=238877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}