{"id":27797,"date":"2016-07-13T11:31:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T18:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/collapse-has-quantum-theorys-greatest-mystery-been-solved"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:07:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:07:12","slug":"collapse-has-quantum-theorys-greatest-mystery-been-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/collapse-has-quantum-theorys-greatest-mystery-been-solved","title":{"rendered":"Collapse: Has quantum theory\u2019s greatest mystery been solved?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/collapse-has-quantum-theorys-greatest-mystery-been-solved.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our best theory of reality says things only become real when we look at them. Understanding how the universe came to be requires a better explanation.<\/p>\n<p>By Jon Cartwright<\/p>\n<p>WHERE, when you aren\u2019t looking at it, is a subatomic particle? A quantum physicist would probably answer: sort of all over the place. An unobserved particle is a wisp of reality, a shimmer of existence \u2013 there isn\u2019t a good metaphor for it, because it is vague both by definition and by nature. Until you do have a peek. Then it becomes a particle proper, it can be put into words, it is a thing with a place.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23130820-200-collapse-has-quantum-theorys-greatest-mystery-been-solved\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23130820&#45;200-coll...en-solved\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our best theory of reality says things only become real when we look at them. Understanding how the universe came to be requires a better explanation. By Jon Cartwright WHERE, when you aren\u2019t looking at it, is a subatomic particle? A quantum physicist would probably answer: sort of all over the place. An unobserved particle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27797","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\/27797","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61208,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27797\/revisions\/61208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}