{"id":98023,"date":"2019-10-31T12:02:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T19:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/scientists-predict-quantum-jumps-turning-physics-on-its-head"},"modified":"2019-10-31T12:02:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T19:02:33","slug":"scientists-predict-quantum-jumps-turning-physics-on-its-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/scientists-predict-quantum-jumps-turning-physics-on-its-head","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Predict Quantum Jumps, Turning Physics on Its Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-predict-quantum-jumps-turning-physics-on-its-head2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1935, physicist Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger concocted a thought experiment to illustrate a pair of strange quantum physics phenomena: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/quantum-device-generate-possible-futures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">superposition<\/a> and unpredictability.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment became known as Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat, and for more than 80 years, it\u2019s served as a cornerstone of quantum physics. But in a newly published study, a team of Yale scientists essentially <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yale.edu\/2019\/06\/03\/physicists-can-predict-jumps-schrodingers-cat-and-finally-save-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">destroys the premise<\/a> at the center of the experiment \u2014 groundbreaking work that could finally allow researchers to develop <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/ibm-problems-quantum-computing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">useful quantum computers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1935, physicist Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger concocted a thought experiment to illustrate a pair of strange quantum physics phenomena: superposition and unpredictability. The experiment became known as Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat, and for more than 80 years, it\u2019s served as a cornerstone of quantum physics. But in a newly published study, a team of Yale scientists essentially destroys [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98023","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=98023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}