{"id":883,"date":"2008-10-10T08:24:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T13:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=883"},"modified":"2008-10-10T08:24:16","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T13:24:16","slug":"verrrry-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/883","title":{"rendered":"Verrrry Interesting!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten a question or two in the adopt-a-physicist about my favorite part of physics, and my answer was quantum mechanics.  And AMO physics is all about investigating quantum theory, so it&#8217;s not surprising I went into this field.  Over at Uncertain Principles, Chad gives a synopsis of <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/whats_interesting_about_amo_ph.php\">What&#8217;s Interesting About AMO Physics<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AMO Physics has practical applications. Atomic clocks are the best example, forming the basis for the GPS navigation system, and providing essential tools for everything from astronomy to power distribution. There are lots of other AMO-based technologies in use, though. Modern telecommunications is heavily dependent on lasers and optics. Atom-based and optical sensors are in the works for lots of things. Even esoteric things like quantum information have some practical applications, with commercial quantum cryptography systems now available.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, yeah!  Preach it, brother!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten a question or two in the adopt-a-physicist about my favorite part of physics, and my answer was quantum mechanics. And AMO physics is all about investigating quantum theory, so it&#8217;s not surprising I went into this field. Over &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/883\">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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}