When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: gremlin/Getty Images Physicists have measured both the momentum and position of a ...
THE TRUMP UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE. Back in 2016, when I was covering Donald Trump‘s first presidential campaign, I met a number of Republican voters who were open to Trump — they weren’t thrilled by ...
Measurement model with passive optical operations and photon-counting measurements. Credit: Physical Review Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.210201 A study published in the journal ...
Heard of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle? It says the more certain we are of a quantum particle’s position, the less certain we are of its velocity, and vice versa. While that deals solely with the ...
Almost a century ago, German physicist Werner Heisenberg realised the laws of quantum mechanics placed some fundamental limits on how accurately we can measure certain properties of microscopic ...
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Scene from Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear. Wood engraving after a paintig, by August von Heckel (German painter, 1824 – 1883), published in 1873. ZU_09/Getty Images a problem that affected Lear when ...
Back in the 1920s, physicists struggled with a subatomic problem. They could lock in a particle’s position, or they could describe its momentum. Either could be measured with rather impressive ...
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