{"id":78859,"date":"2018-05-17T10:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T17:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/this-physicists-ideas-of-time-will-blow-your-mind"},"modified":"2018-05-17T10:42:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T17:42:23","slug":"this-physicists-ideas-of-time-will-blow-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/this-physicists-ideas-of-time-will-blow-your-mind","title":{"rendered":"This physicist\u2019s ideas of time will blow your mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-physicists-ideas-of-time-will-blow-your-mind2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Time feels real to people. But it doesn\u2019t even exist, according to quantum physics. \u201cThere is no time variable in the fundamental equations that describe the world,\u201d theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli tells Quartz.<\/p>\n<p>If you met him socially, Rovelli wouldn\u2019t assault you with abstractions and math to prove this point. He\u2019d \u201crather not ruin a party with physics,\u201d he says. We don\u2019t have to understand the mechanics of the universe to go about our daily lives. But it\u2019s good to take a step back every once in a while.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTime is a fascinating topic because it touches our deepest emotions. Time opens up life and takes everything away. Wondering about time is wondering about the very sense of our life. This is [why] I have spent my life studying time,\u201d Rovelli explains.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1279371\/this-physicists-ideas-of-time-will-blow-your-mind\/\">https:\/\/qz.com\/1279371\/this-physicists-ideas-of-time-will-blow-your-mind\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time feels real to people. But it doesn\u2019t even exist, according to quantum physics. \u201cThere is no time variable in the fundamental equations that describe the world,\u201d theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli tells Quartz. If you met him socially, Rovelli wouldn\u2019t assault you with abstractions and math to prove this point. He\u2019d \u201crather not ruin a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78859","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=78859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}