{"id":94663,"date":"2019-08-11T17:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T00:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/supergravity-theory-wins-scientists-3m-breakthrough-prize"},"modified":"2019-08-11T17:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T00:22:27","slug":"supergravity-theory-wins-scientists-3m-breakthrough-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/supergravity-theory-wins-scientists-3m-breakthrough-prize","title":{"rendered":"Supergravity theory wins scientists $3M Breakthrough Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/supergravity-theory-wins-scientists-3m-breakthrough-prize.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The scientists who came up with the theory of supergravity in the 1970s are $3 million richer.<\/p>\n<p>The trio, physicists Sergio Ferrara, Daniel Z. Freedman and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, won the <a href=\"https:\/\/breakthroughprize.org\/News\/53\" target=\"_blank\" data-component=\"externalLink\" rel=\"noopener\">Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics<\/a>, according to a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Supergravity is described in the prize announcement as a theory in which, \u201cquantum variables are part of the description of the geometry of spacetime.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scientists who came up with the theory of supergravity in the 1970s are $3 million richer. The trio, physicists Sergio Ferrara, Daniel Z. Freedman and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, won the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, according to a statement Wednesday. Supergravity is described in the prize announcement as a theory in which, \u201cquantum [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94663","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}