For centuries, scientific progress has depended on more precise tools for measuring the world around us. Galileo’s telescope revealed Jupiter’s moons and shook the geocentric universe. Thomas Young’s ...
Dr Christophe Valahu in the Quantum Control Laboratory at the University of Sydney Nano Institute. Dr Valahu is standing in front of the ion trap used in the experiment. Physicists in Australia and ...
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Politics and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle

The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, formulated by physicist Werner Heisenberg in 1927, reminds us that there are fundamental limits to what can be known simultaneously about certain pairs of ...
Across centuries, better instruments drove discovery; now, simultaneous quantum measurements reach unprecedented precision.