{"id":30202,"date":"2016-09-15T12:48:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T19:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/quantum-mechanics-revisited-physicists-propose-new-structure-of-time"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:40:00","slug":"quantum-mechanics-revisited-physicists-propose-new-structure-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/quantum-mechanics-revisited-physicists-propose-new-structure-of-time","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Mechanics Revisited: Physicists Propose New Structure of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zPgtPF0kduA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read a little further into the paper, and things get really weird. If the equations of quantum mechanics must be altered in accordance with the new research, then it will give rise to a new and very curious definition of time.<\/p>\n<p>Time is, essentially, a \u201ccrystal\u201d\u2014a highly organized lattice of discrete \u201cparticles,\u201d or regularly repeating segments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe physical universe is really like a movie\/motion picture, in which a series of still images shown on a screen creates the illusion of moving images,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-02-physicists-implications-quantum-mechanics-philosophy.html\" target=\"_blank\">said Mir Faizal<\/a> of the University of Waterloo and the University of Lethbridge in Canada, and lead author of the paper.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/is-time-really-a-crystal-physicists-upend-quantum-mechanics-and-philosophy-with-new-idea\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/is-time-really-a-crystal-physicists-upen...-new-idea\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read a little further into the paper, and things get really weird. If the equations of quantum mechanics must be altered in accordance with the new research, then it will give rise to a new and very curious definition of time. Time is, essentially, a \u201ccrystal\u201d\u2014a highly organized lattice of discrete \u201cparticles,\u201d or regularly repeating [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30202","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=30202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60385,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30202\/revisions\/60385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}