{"id":246653,"date":"2026-11-05T10:25:36","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/key-oddity-of-quantum-physics-may-run-even-deeper-than-anticipated"},"modified":"2026-11-05T10:25:36","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:25:36","slug":"key-oddity-of-quantum-physics-may-run-even-deeper-than-anticipated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/key-oddity-of-quantum-physics-may-run-even-deeper-than-anticipated","title":{"rendered":"Key oddity of quantum physics may run even deeper than anticipated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Quantum mechanics\u2019 probabilistic nature has puzzled researchers for more than a century. A new analysis shows that ridding the theory of this odd characteristic may be even harder than anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>Infamously, quantum objects can exist in combinations of seemingly mutually exclusive states, such as in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2476016-where-schrodingers-cat-came-from-and-why-its-getting-fatter\/\">Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat thought experiment<\/a>, where the animal is in a mix of states<strong> <\/strong>that<strong> <\/strong>makes it seem both alive and dead, and also neither. Left undisturbed and isolated, the cat remains mixed, but if it is observed \u2013 if an experimenter opens its box, say \u2013 it abruptly reduces to just one, unmixed state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum mechanics\u2019 probabilistic nature has puzzled researchers for more than a century. A new analysis shows that ridding the theory of this odd characteristic may be even harder than anticipated. Infamously, quantum objects can exist in combinations of seemingly mutually exclusive states, such as in the Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat thought experiment, where the animal is in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246653","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=246653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}