{"id":239113,"date":"2026-06-17T03:17:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/scientists-mini-universe-measures-time-without-clock"},"modified":"2026-06-17T03:17:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:17:50","slug":"scientists-mini-universe-measures-time-without-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/scientists-mini-universe-measures-time-without-clock","title":{"rendered":"Scientist\u2019s \u2018mini\u2011universe\u2019 measures time without clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-mini-universe-measures-time-without-clock.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The experiment addresses a long-standing question in physics \u2014 in some theories of the universe, there is no built\u2011in clock so how do you tell what comes \u2018before\u2019 and \u2018after\u2019 without external time?<\/p>\n<p>Professor Barontini showed that the system follows the standard equations of quantum physics and demonstrates that deep questions about the nature of time \u2014 usually discussed only in theories about the universe as a whole \u2014 can be tested in controlled laboratory experiments.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment provides a powerful testbed for ideas in quantum cosmology and gravity, meaning that ideas relating to the early universe can now be tested experimentally in the lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The experiment addresses a long-standing question in physics \u2014 in some theories of the universe, there is no built\u2011in clock so how do you tell what comes \u2018before\u2019 and \u2018after\u2019 without external time? Professor Barontini showed that the system follows the standard equations of quantum physics and demonstrates that deep questions about the nature of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239113","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=239113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}