{"id":77172,"date":"2018-03-26T00:42:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T07:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/darpa-is-researching-time-crystals-and-their-reasons-are-classified"},"modified":"2018-03-26T00:42:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T07:42:55","slug":"darpa-is-researching-time-crystals-and-their-reasons-are-classified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/darpa-is-researching-time-crystals-and-their-reasons-are-classified","title":{"rendered":"DARPA Is Researching Time Crystals, And Their Reasons Are \u2018Classified\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-is-researching-time-crystals-and-their-reasons-are-classified.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US military likes to stay at the forefront of the cutting edge of science \u2014 most recently investigating ways they can \u2018hack\u2019 the human brain and body to make it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/darpa-research-extending-golden-hour-first-aid-field-injuries\">die slower<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-us-military-thinks-electrical-stimulation-could-boost-human-learning-by-30\">learn faste <\/a>r.<\/p>\n<p>But in an unexpected twist, it turns out they\u2019re also interested in pushing the limits of quantum mechanics. The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced it\u2019s funding research into one of the strangest scientific breakthroughs in recent memory \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/it-s-official-time-crystals-are-a-new-crazy-state-of-matter-and-now-we-can-create-them\">time crystals.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In case you missed it, time crystals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/it-s-official-time-crystals-are-a-new-crazy-state-of-matter-and-now-we-can-create-them\">made headlines last year<\/a> when scientists finally made the bizarre objects in the lab, four years after they were first proposed.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/why-is-darpa-funding-time-crystal-research\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/why-is-darpa-funding-time-crystal-research<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military likes to stay at the forefront of the cutting edge of science \u2014 most recently investigating ways they can \u2018hack\u2019 the human brain and body to make it die slower, and learn faste r. But in an unexpected twist, it turns out they\u2019re also interested in pushing the limits of quantum mechanics. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,47,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77172","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}