{"id":34264,"date":"2017-02-07T23:44:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T07:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/sorry-einstein-physicists-just-reinforced-the-reality-of-quantum-weirdness-in-the-universe"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:44:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:44:31","slug":"sorry-einstein-physicists-just-reinforced-the-reality-of-quantum-weirdness-in-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/sorry-einstein-physicists-just-reinforced-the-reality-of-quantum-weirdness-in-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, Einstein \u2014 physicists just reinforced the reality of quantum weirdness in the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sorry-einstein-physicists-just-reinforced-the-reality-of-quantum-weirdness-in-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the strangest phenomena you\u2019re likely to come across in all of science is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-new-experiment-will-allow-us-to-see-quantum-entanglement-with-the-naked-eye\">quantum entanglement<\/a> \u2014 where two particles interact in such a way that they become deeply linked, and essentially \u2018share\u2019 an existence, even if they\u2019re light-years apart.<\/p>\n<p>Einstein famously couldn\u2019t get on board with this idea, and ultimately decided that it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tech\/elements\/quantum-theory-by-starlight\">just too weird to be true<\/a>. But a new experiment has just made the strongest case yet for the reality of quantum entanglement, so it looks like our Universe is just as bizarre as we suspected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real estate left over for the skeptics of quantum mechanics has shrunk considerably,\u201d one of the team, David Kaiser from MIT, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-02-physicists-loophole-bell-inequality-year-old.html\">told Jennifer Chu at Phys.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/sorry-einstein-physicists-just-reinforced-the-reality-of-quantum-weirdness-in-the-universe\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/sorry-einstein-physicists-just-r...e-universe<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the strangest phenomena you\u2019re likely to come across in all of science is quantum entanglement \u2014 where two particles interact in such a way that they become deeply linked, and essentially \u2018share\u2019 an existence, even if they\u2019re light-years apart. Einstein famously couldn\u2019t get on board with this idea, and ultimately decided that it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34264","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\/34264","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58833,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34264\/revisions\/58833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}