{"id":179755,"date":"2024-01-03T17:28:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T23:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/gravitational-wave-observatory-in-eastern-wa-breaks-quantum-limit-why-it-matters"},"modified":"2024-01-03T17:28:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T23:28:32","slug":"gravitational-wave-observatory-in-eastern-wa-breaks-quantum-limit-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/gravitational-wave-observatory-in-eastern-wa-breaks-quantum-limit-why-it-matters","title":{"rendered":"Gravitational wave observatory in Eastern WA breaks quantum limit. Why it matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gravitational-wave-observatory-in-eastern-wa-breaks-quantum-limit-why-it-matters2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>KENNEWICK \u2014 The LIGO Hanford Observatory near Richland is expected to detect 60% more cataclysmic cosmic events \u2014 like colliding neutron stars and black holes \u2014 thanks to a quantum limit breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>Since the observatory was turned back on in May after three years of upgrades, including adding new quantum squeezing technology, it can probe a larger volume of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that we have surpassed this quantum limit, we can do a lot more astronomy,\u201d said Lee McCuller, assistant professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology and a leader in the study published in the journal \u201cPhysical Review X.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KENNEWICK \u2014 The LIGO Hanford Observatory near Richland is expected to detect 60% more cataclysmic cosmic events \u2014 like colliding neutron stars and black holes \u2014 thanks to a quantum limit breakthrough. Since the observatory was turned back on in May after three years of upgrades, including adding new quantum squeezing technology, it can probe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}