{"id":447548,"date":"2018-03-05T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=1da48130643b59801d12a28f6a6848fb"},"modified":"2018-03-05T12:00:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T16:00:27","slug":"massive-astrophysical-objects-governed-by-subatomic-equation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=447548","title":{"rendered":"Massive astrophysical objects governed by subatomic equation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum mechanics is the branch of physics governing the sometimes-strange behavior of the tiny particles that make up our universe. Equations describing the quantum world are generally confined to the subatomic realm\u2014the mathematics relevant at very small scales is not relevant at larger scales, and vice versa. However, a surprising new discovery from a Caltech researcher suggests that the Schr\u00f6dinger Equation\u2014the fundamental equation of quantum mechanics\u2014is remarkably useful in describing the long-term evolution of certain astronomical structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum mechanics is the branch of physics governing the sometimes-strange behavior of the tiny particles that make up our universe. Equations describing the quantum world are generally confined to the subatomic realm&mdash;the mathematics relevant at very small scales is not relevant at larger scales, and vice versa. However, a surprising new discovery from a Caltech researcher suggests that the Schr&ouml;dinger Equation&mdash;the fundamental equation of quantum mechanics&mdash;is remarkably useful in describing the long-term evolution of certain astronomical structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447549,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447548\/revisions\/447549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}