{"id":88971,"date":"2019-03-27T10:24:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T17:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/physicists-measure-quantum-tunneling-time-to-be-near-instantaneous"},"modified":"2019-03-27T10:24:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T17:24:39","slug":"physicists-measure-quantum-tunneling-time-to-be-near-instantaneous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/physicists-measure-quantum-tunneling-time-to-be-near-instantaneous","title":{"rendered":"Physicists measure quantum tunneling time to be near-instantaneous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sgxkw1TbYrU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you throw a ball at a wall, it\u2019s going to bounce back at you \u2013 that\u2019s classical physics at work. But of course, the world of quantum physics is much spookier, so if you did the same with a particle, there\u2019s a chance that it will suddenly appear on the other side. This is thanks to a phenomenon known as quantum tunneling, and now a team of physicists has measured just how long that process takes.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/quantum-tunneling-time-measured-instantaneous\/58879\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/quantum-tunneling-time-measured-instantaneous\/58879\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you throw a ball at a wall, it\u2019s going to bounce back at you \u2013 that\u2019s classical physics at work. But of course, the world of quantum physics is much spookier, so if you did the same with a particle, there\u2019s a chance that it will suddenly appear on the other side. This is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88971","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}