{"id":73102,"date":"2017-10-07T00:05:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T07:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/a-rare-element-from-the-edge-of-the-periodic-table-is-breaking-quantum-mechanics"},"modified":"2017-10-07T00:05:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T07:05:01","slug":"a-rare-element-from-the-edge-of-the-periodic-table-is-breaking-quantum-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/a-rare-element-from-the-edge-of-the-periodic-table-is-breaking-quantum-mechanics","title":{"rendered":"A Rare Element From The Edge of The Periodic Table Is Breaking Quantum Mechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-rare-element-from-the-edge-of-the-periodic-table-is-breaking-quantum-mechanics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot we don\u2019t know about the actinides. On the periodic table, this series of heavy, radioactive elements hangs at the bottom, and includes a host of mysterious substances that don\u2019t naturally occur on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Among this cast of unknowns, berkelium looks to be even stranger than we realised. New experiments with this incredibly rare synthetic element have shown that its electrons don\u2019t behave the way they should, defying quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s almost like being in an alternate universe because you\u2019re seeing chemistry you simply don\u2019t see in everyday elements,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.fsu.edu\/news\/science-technology\/2017\/10\/03\/breaking-rules-heavy-chemical-elements-alter-theory-quantum-mechanics\/\">says chemist Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt<\/a> from Florida State University.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-mysterious-element-on-the-outskirts-of-the-periodic-table-is-breaking-quantum-mechanics?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Branded+Content&utm_campaign=ScienceNaturePage\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-mysterious-element-on-the-outs...NaturePage<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a lot we don\u2019t know about the actinides. On the periodic table, this series of heavy, radioactive elements hangs at the bottom, and includes a host of mysterious substances that don\u2019t naturally occur on Earth. Among this cast of unknowns, berkelium looks to be even stranger than we realised. New experiments with this incredibly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73102","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}