{"id":243461,"date":"2026-09-01T05:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/physicists-finally-put-feynmans-path-integral-to-the-test"},"modified":"2026-09-01T05:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:19:13","slug":"physicists-finally-put-feynmans-path-integral-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/physicists-finally-put-feynmans-path-integral-to-the-test","title":{"rendered":"Physicists finally put Feynman\u2019s path integral to the test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-finally-put-feynmans-path-integral-to-the-test2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For nearly 80 years, physicists have relied on a thought experiment created by Richard Feynman to predict how quantum particles behave. For the first time, researchers in China have tested this trick directly in the lab.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Shi-Liang Zhu at South China Normal University in Guangzhou, China, the team used single particles of light to show that Feynman\u2019s idea holds up in practical experiments.<\/p>\n<p>Their results are published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aeh1011\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Science Advances<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly 80 years, physicists have relied on a thought experiment created by Richard Feynman to predict how quantum particles behave. For the first time, researchers in China have tested this trick directly in the lab. Led by Shi-Liang Zhu at South China Normal University in Guangzhou, China, the team used single particles of light [\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-243461","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\/243461","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=243461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}