{"id":89071,"date":"2019-03-30T15:22:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T22:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/physicists-just-measured-quantum-nothingness-at-room-temperature"},"modified":"2019-03-30T15:22:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T22:22:34","slug":"physicists-just-measured-quantum-nothingness-at-room-temperature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/physicists-just-measured-quantum-nothingness-at-room-temperature","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Just Measured Quantum \u2018Nothingness\u2019 at Room Temperature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-just-measured-quantum-nothingness-at-room-temperature2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists have measured the sound of \u2018nothingness\u2019 at room temperature \u2014 an important step in our future ability to listen in to the Universe.<\/p>\n<p>You can think of it a little like this \u2014 we\u2019ve now been able to measure the way some of the ubiquitous \u2018background noise\u2019 of space interacts with our equipment, which will hopefully help us tune it out going forward.<\/p>\n<p>After all, the entire Universe is crackling with the static of quantum physics, and in order to be able to pick up the faint echoes of distant astronomical giants \u2014 such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/gravitational-waves\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"gravitational waves\">gravitational waves<\/a> rippling off a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"black hole\">black hole<\/a> merger, for example \u2014 we need to be able to tune out the quantum static.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-sound-of-nothing-was-measured-at-room-temperature-and-it-will-help-us-find-cosmic-collisions\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-sound-of-nothing-was-measur...collisions<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have measured the sound of \u2018nothingness\u2019 at room temperature \u2014 an important step in our future ability to listen in to the Universe. You can think of it a little like this \u2014 we\u2019ve now been able to measure the way some of the ubiquitous \u2018background noise\u2019 of space interacts with our equipment, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89071","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=89071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}