{"id":83502,"date":"2018-10-10T11:22:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T18:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/scientists-just-created-quantum-artificial-life-for-the-first-time-ever"},"modified":"2018-10-10T11:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T18:22:38","slug":"scientists-just-created-quantum-artificial-life-for-the-first-time-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/scientists-just-created-quantum-artificial-life-for-the-first-time-ever","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Created Quantum Artificial Life For The First Time Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-created-quantum-artificial-life-for-the-first-time-ever.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can the origin of life be explained with quantum mechanics? And if so, are there quantum algorithms that could encode life itself?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re a little closer to finding out the answers to those big questions thanks to new research carried out with an IBM supercomputer.<\/p>\n<p>Encoding behaviours related to self-replication, mutation, interaction between individuals, and (inevitably) death, a newly created quantum algorithm has been used to show that quantum computers can indeed mimic some of the patterns of biology in the real world.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-simulate-artificial-life-in-quantum-algorithm-for-first-time\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-simulate-artificial-...first-time<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can the origin of life be explained with quantum mechanics? And if so, are there quantum algorithms that could encode life itself? We\u2019re a little closer to finding out the answers to those big questions thanks to new research carried out with an IBM supercomputer. Encoding behaviours related to self-replication, mutation, interaction between individuals, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,41,1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83502","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\/432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}