{"id":3923837,"date":"2026-02-06T11:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/measuring-time-at-the-quantum-level-depends-on-material-symmetry\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:03:11","slug":"measuring-time-at-the-quantum-level-depends-on-material-symmetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/measuring-time-at-the-quantum-level-depends-on-material-symmetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring time at the quantum level depends on material symmetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>EPFL physicists have found a way to measure the time involved in quantum events and found it depends on the symmetry of the material. &#8220;The concept of time has troubled philosophers and physicists for thousands of years, and the advent of quantum mechanics has not simplified the problem,&#8221; says Professor Hugo Dil, a physicist at EPFL. &#8220;The central problem is the general role of time in quantum mechanics, and especially the timescale associated with a quantum transition.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-quantum-material-symmetry.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EPFL physicists have found a way to measure the time involved in quantum events and found it depends on the symmetry of the material. &#8220;The concept of time has troubled philosophers and physicists for thousands of years, and the advent of quantum mechanics has not simplified the problem,&#8221; says Professor Hugo Dil, a physicist at [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}