{"id":478,"date":"2009-03-14T19:47:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T02:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blog\/?p=478"},"modified":"2009-03-14T20:14:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T03:14:26","slug":"was-einstein-wrong-a-quantum-threat-to-special-relativity-scientific-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2009\/03\/14\/was-einstein-wrong-a-quantum-threat-to-special-relativity-scientific-american\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quantum Embarrassment to Scientific American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Scientific American lead article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=was-einstein-wrong-about-relativity&#038;print=true\">Was Einstein Wrong?: A Quantum Threat to Special Relativity<\/a> is an odd duck. It almost (but never quite) does a fair job of describing some quite challenging aspects of quantum mechanics and its relation to locality in special relativity, and yet manages to completely disgrace itself (and the magazine&#8217;s editors) within its first paragraph by asserting that &#8220;radio waves propagate through the air&#8221; in an argument identifying the light-cone locality of special relativity with non-existence of action-at-a-distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Scientific American lead article Was Einstein Wrong?: A Quantum Threat to Special Relativity is an odd duck. It almost (but never quite) does a fair job of describing some quite challenging aspects of quantum mechanics and its relation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2009\/03\/14\/was-einstein-wrong-a-quantum-threat-to-special-relativity-scientific-american\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[70,72,71,69,68],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","tag-causality","tag-hidden-variables","tag-locality","tag-quantum-mechanics","tag-relativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}