{"id":28994,"date":"2016-08-16T08:46:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T15:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/china-launches-new-space-race-with-worlds-first-quantum-satellite-portal-to-a-whole-new-universe"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:24:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:24:21","slug":"china-launches-new-space-race-with-worlds-first-quantum-satellite-portal-to-a-whole-new-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/china-launches-new-space-race-with-worlds-first-quantum-satellite-portal-to-a-whole-new-universe","title":{"rendered":"China Launches New Space Race with World\u2019s First Quantum Satellite \u2013\u201cPortal to a Whole New Universe\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-launches-new-space-race-with-worlds-first-quantum-satellite-portal-to-a-whole-new-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At 1.40am this morning, China launched a new Space Race with the world\u2019s first quantum satellite, recently named Micius after an ancient Chinese philosopher and engineer, who, more than 2,400 years ago, proposed that light always travelled in a straight line and that the physical world was made up by particles. Quantum teleportation technology would be able to eliminate the 20-minute time delay in communication between earth and Mars and would allow tiny spacecraft to send back images and videos of planets many light years away without the need to carry a huge antenna. It could even give us a glimpse of what\u2019s inside a black hole.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailygalaxy.com\/my_weblog\/2016\/08\/-china-launches-new-space-race-with-worlds-first-quantum-satellite-a-portal-to-a-whole-new-universe.html\">http:\/\/www.dailygalaxy.com\/my_weblog\/2016\/08\/-china-launches...verse.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 1.40am this morning, China launched a new Space Race with the world\u2019s first quantum satellite, recently named Micius after an ancient Chinese philosopher and engineer, who, more than 2,400 years ago, proposed that light always travelled in a straight line and that the physical world was made up by particles. Quantum teleportation technology would [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48,1617,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28994","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66555,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28994\/revisions\/66555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}