{"id":78923,"date":"2018-05-21T08:43:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T15:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/how-nasa-will-unlock-the-secrets-of-quantum-mechanics-aboard-the-iss"},"modified":"2018-05-26T07:10:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T14:10:02","slug":"how-nasa-will-unlock-the-secrets-of-quantum-mechanics-aboard-the-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/how-nasa-will-unlock-the-secrets-of-quantum-mechanics-aboard-the-iss","title":{"rendered":"How NASA Will Unlock the Secrets of Quantum Mechanics Aboard the ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-nasa-will-unlock-the-secrets-of-quantum-mechanics-aboard-the-iss.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Antares rocket launched from Virginia before sunrise this morning and is on its way to the International Space Station. Its 7,400 pounds of cargo include an experiment that will chill atoms to just about absolute zero\u2014colder than the vacuum of space itself.<\/p>\n<p>The Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) is set to create Bose-Einstein condensates on board the ISS. But what\u2019s a Bose-Einstein condensate? And why make it in space?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEssentially, it\u2019s going to allow us to do different kinds of things than we\u2019d be able to do on Earth,\u201d Gretchen Campbell, co-director of the University of Maryland\u2019s Joint Quantum Institute, told Gizmodo.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/how-nasa-will-unlock-the-secrets-of-quantum-mechanics-a-1826191490\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/how-nasa-will-unlock-the-secrets-of-quan...1826191490<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Antares rocket launched from Virginia before sunrise this morning and is on its way to the International Space Station. Its 7,400 pounds of cargo include an experiment that will chill atoms to just about absolute zero\u2014colder than the vacuum of space itself. The Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) is set to create Bose-Einstein condensates on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78923","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=78923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79059,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78923\/revisions\/79059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}