{"id":29457,"date":"2016-08-27T22:48:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T05:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/quantum-correlations-do-not-imply-instant-causation"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:19:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:19:57","slug":"quantum-correlations-do-not-imply-instant-causation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/quantum-correlations-do-not-imply-instant-causation","title":{"rendered":"Quantum correlations do not imply instant causation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-correlations-do-not-imply-instant-causation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team led by a Heriot-Watt scientist has shown that the universe is even weirder than had previously been thought.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015 the universe was officially proven to be weird. After many decades of research, a series of experiments showed that distant, entangled objects can seemingly interact with each other through what Albert Einstein famously dismissed as \u201cSpooky action at a distance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A new experiment by an international team led by Heriot-Watt\u2019s Dr Alessandro Fedrizzi has now found that the universe is even weirder than that: entangled objects do not cause each other to behave the way they do.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/m.phys.org\/news\/2016-08-quantum-imply-instant-causation.html\">http:\/\/m.phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;08-quantum-imply-instant-causation.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team led by a Heriot-Watt scientist has shown that the universe is even weirder than had previously been thought. In 2015 the universe was officially proven to be weird. After many decades of research, a series of experiments showed that distant, entangled objects can seemingly interact with each other through what Albert Einstein [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29457","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66404,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29457\/revisions\/66404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}