{"id":92242,"date":"2019-06-17T12:23:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T19:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/scientists-have-found-evidence-a-strange-group-of-quantum-particles-are-basically-immortal"},"modified":"2019-06-17T12:23:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T19:23:58","slug":"scientists-have-found-evidence-a-strange-group-of-quantum-particles-are-basically-immortal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/scientists-have-found-evidence-a-strange-group-of-quantum-particles-are-basically-immortal","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Found Evidence a Strange Group of Quantum Particles Are Basically Immortal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-found-evidence-a-strange-group-of-quantum-particles-are-basically-immortal2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nothing lasts forever. Humans, planets, stars, galaxies, maybe even the Universe itself, everything has an expiration date. But things in the quantum realm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2015\/nov\/04\/relativity-quantum-mechanics-universe-physicists\">don\u2019t always follow the rules<\/a>. Now, scientists have found that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quasiparticle\">quasiparticles<\/a> in quantum systems could be effectively immortal.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t mean they don\u2019t decay, which is reassuring. But once these quasiparticles <em>have<\/em> decayed, they are able to reorganise themselves back into existence, possibly ad infinitum.<\/p>\n<p>This seemingly flies right in the face of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Second_law_of_thermodynamics\">second law of thermodynamics<\/a>, which asserts that entropy in an isolated system can only move in an increasing direction: things can only break down, not build back up again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing lasts forever. Humans, planets, stars, galaxies, maybe even the Universe itself, everything has an expiration date. But things in the quantum realm don\u2019t always follow the rules. Now, scientists have found that quasiparticles in quantum systems could be effectively immortal. That doesn\u2019t mean they don\u2019t decay, which is reassuring. But once these quasiparticles have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,48,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92242","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=92242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}