{"id":79619,"date":"2018-06-14T16:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T23:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/we-have-hints-of-a-theory-beyond-quantum-physics"},"modified":"2018-06-14T16:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T23:22:22","slug":"we-have-hints-of-a-theory-beyond-quantum-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/we-have-hints-of-a-theory-beyond-quantum-physics","title":{"rendered":"We have hints of a theory beyond quantum physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-have-hints-of-a-theory-beyond-quantum-physics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you think our best theory of reality is weird you ain\u2019t seen nothing yet, says physicist <b>Ciar\u00e1n Lee<\/b> \u2013 it could be a fuzzy version of something bigger.<\/p>\n<p>By Ciar\u00e1n Lee<\/p>\n<p>I HAVE a confession to make: I\u2019m bored of quantum mechanics. This is an odd thing for a physicist to admit, but the most successful theory of modern physics has started to leave me cold. Perhaps I have just grown too used to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23631510-200-consciously-quantum-how-you-make-everything-real\/\">spooky predictions<\/a> and its love of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23130820-200-collapse-has-quantum-theorys-greatest-mystery-been-solved\/\">randomness<\/a>. Or it might be the fact that, despite its many successes and the way <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23331093-100-infinite-frontiers\/\">it has captured popular imagination<\/a>, there are hints that quantum mechanics isn\u2019t as accurate a picture of reality as some would have you believe.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23831820-300-we-have-hints-of-a-theory-beyond-quantum-physics\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23831820&#45;300-we-h...m-physics\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think our best theory of reality is weird you ain\u2019t seen nothing yet, says physicist Ciar\u00e1n Lee \u2013 it could be a fuzzy version of something bigger. By Ciar\u00e1n Lee I HAVE a confession to make: I\u2019m bored of quantum mechanics. This is an odd thing for a physicist to admit, but the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79619","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=79619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}