{"id":239292,"date":"2026-06-19T02:21:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/what-if-time-isnt-fundamental-physicists-just-tested-the-idea-in-the-lab"},"modified":"2026-06-19T02:21:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:21:36","slug":"what-if-time-isnt-fundamental-physicists-just-tested-the-idea-in-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/what-if-time-isnt-fundamental-physicists-just-tested-the-idea-in-the-lab","title":{"rendered":"What if Time Isn\u2019t Fundamental? Physicists Just Tested the Idea in the Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-if-time-isnt-fundamental-physicists-just-tested-the-idea-in-the-lab2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A quantum \u201cmini universe\u201d made from ultracold atoms revealed that time can emerge from entropy changes inside a system, offering experimental insight into one of physics\u2019 deepest mysteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quantum \u201cmini universe\u201d made from ultracold atoms revealed that time can emerge from entropy changes inside a system, offering experimental insight into one of physics\u2019 deepest mysteries.<\/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-239292","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\/239292","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=239292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}