{"id":246936,"date":"2026-11-09T10:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T16:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/quantum-physics-can-determine-a-persons-location"},"modified":"2026-11-09T10:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T16:32:17","slug":"quantum-physics-can-determine-a-persons-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/quantum-physics-can-determine-a-persons-location","title":{"rendered":"Quantum physics can determine a person\u2019s location"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe title=\"Quantum physics can determine a person\u2019s location\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_ev1u5fTg64?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have demonstrated a quantum technique to <a href=\"https:\/\/summit.aps.org\/events\/MAR-L09\/7\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ensure that someone is in the location they claim to be<\/a>, physicist Abigail Gookin reported March 18 at the American Physical Society\u2019s Global Physics Summit. Called quantum position verification, the technique is based on the concept of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/quantum-mechanics-100-revolution\">quantum entanglement<\/a>, in which the fates of two far-flung particles are closely linked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have demonstrated a quantum technique to ensure that someone is in the location they claim to be, physicist Abigail Gookin reported March 18 at the American Physical Society\u2019s Global Physics Summit. Called quantum position verification, the technique is based on the concept of quantum entanglement, in which the fates of two far-flung particles are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246936","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\/246936","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=246936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}