{"id":97027,"date":"2019-10-04T01:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T08:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/this-quantum-physics-breakthrough-could-be-the-origin-story-for-time-travel"},"modified":"2019-10-04T01:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T08:22:28","slug":"this-quantum-physics-breakthrough-could-be-the-origin-story-for-time-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/this-quantum-physics-breakthrough-could-be-the-origin-story-for-time-travel","title":{"rendered":"This quantum physics breakthrough could be the origin story for time travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-quantum-physics-breakthrough-could-be-the-origin-story-for-time-travel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers recently placed an entire molecule into a state of quantum superposition. This <i>huge<\/i> breakthrough represents the largest object to ever be observed in such a state \u2013 essentially occupying two places at once. And it may just be the eureka moment that defines our species\u2019 far-future technology.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum physics is about as close to a faith-based field of scientific study as there is. It\u2019s not our fault, the universe is infinite and complex and we\u2019ve been here for a relatively short amount of time. It\u2019s excusable that we still don\u2019t understand all the rules and, in lieu of a blueprint, we\u2019re forced to come up with theories to explain the things we don\u2019t <i>know<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers recently placed an entire molecule into a state of quantum superposition. This huge breakthrough represents the largest object to ever be observed in such a state \u2013 essentially occupying two places at once. And it may just be the eureka moment that defines our species\u2019 far-future technology. Quantum physics is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97027","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}