{"id":31631,"date":"2016-11-02T19:50:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T02:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/classic-quantum-experiment-could-conceal-theory-of-everything"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:16:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:16:57","slug":"classic-quantum-experiment-could-conceal-theory-of-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/classic-quantum-experiment-could-conceal-theory-of-everything","title":{"rendered":"Classic quantum experiment could conceal theory of everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/classic-quantum-experiment-could-conceal-theory-of-everything.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Anil Ananthaswamy<\/p>\n<p>AN ICONIC physics experiment may be hiding more than we ever realised about the nature of reality. The classic \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg18524895-100-double-slit-effect-seen-over-time-too\/\">double-slit<\/a>\u201d experiment reveals the strange duality of the quantum world, but it may behave more strangely than we thought \u2013 and could challenge one of the most closely held assumptions of quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>Revisiting it could help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/round-up\/instant-expert-theory-of-everything\/\">unify quantum mechanics with the other pillar of theoretical physics<\/a> \u2013 Einstein\u2019s general relativity \u2013 a challenge that has so far proven intractable.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23230983-200-classic-quantum-experiment-could-conceal-theory-of-everything\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23230983&#45;200-clas...verything\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anil Ananthaswamy AN ICONIC physics experiment may be hiding more than we ever realised about the nature of reality. The classic \u201cdouble-slit\u201d experiment reveals the strange duality of the quantum world, but it may behave more strangely than we thought \u2013 and could challenge one of the most closely held assumptions of quantum mechanics. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31631","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59871,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31631\/revisions\/59871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}