{"id":246165,"date":"2026-10-29T23:11:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/everything-is-quantum-including-you"},"modified":"2026-10-29T23:11:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:11:23","slug":"everything-is-quantum-including-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/everything-is-quantum-including-you","title":{"rendered":"Everything is quantum, including you"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>We never see tables in two places at once or cats that are both dead and alive\u2014yet this is exactly what quantum mechanics predicts. As a result, it has typically been assumed that quantum mechanics only applies to small scales. But according to Oxford physicist <strong>Vlatko Vedral<\/strong>, this is a radical mistake. The universe is quantum at every scale, and we only get paradoxes of quantum mechanics when we insist on a classical world outside it. In this interview, IAI contributing editor Ozbir Kip challenges Vedral on whether reality is really quantum all the way up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kip: Your work is primarily in quantum information. Most of us are familiar with or have heard of quantum mechanics. Can you tell us a bit about what quantum information is as a field of study?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vedral: Yes, this was a big revolution that started maybe in the \u201860s and \u201870s. It was a realization that how much information you can encode into a physical system and how quickly you can process this information are not abstract mathematical laws, but fundamentally depend on the laws of physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We never see tables in two places at once or cats that are both dead and alive\u2014yet this is exactly what quantum mechanics predicts. As a result, it has typically been assumed that quantum mechanics only applies to small scales. But according to Oxford physicist Vlatko Vedral, this is a radical mistake. The universe is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246165","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=246165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}