{"id":3926893,"date":"2026-07-09T08:01:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/check-your-ingredients-a-new-blueprint-for-using-fermis-golden-rule\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:01:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:01:27","slug":"check-your-ingredients-a-new-blueprint-for-using-fermis-golden-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/check-your-ingredients-a-new-blueprint-for-using-fermis-golden-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Check your ingredients&#8217;: A new blueprint for using Fermi&#8217;s &#8216;Golden Rule&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Underpinning much of modern technology, from smartphones to scanning tunneling microscopes to particle colliders, is Fermi&#8217;s Golden Rule. Named for 20th-century Italian American physicist Enrico Fermi (but actually discovered by British physicist Paul Dirac), the rule is a formula that connects what can be measured in an experiment\u2014such as how fast atoms &#8220;jump&#8221; between energy states\u2014to the microscopic properties of a quantum mechanical system. The formula is taught in every undergraduate quantum physics class.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-ingredients-blueprint-fermi-golden.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Underpinning much of modern technology, from smartphones to scanning tunneling microscopes to particle colliders, is Fermi&#8217;s Golden Rule. Named for 20th-century Italian American physicist Enrico Fermi (but actually discovered by British physicist Paul Dirac), the rule is a formula that connects what can be measured in an experiment\u2014such as how fast atoms &#8220;jump&#8221; between energy [&#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-3926893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}