{"id":223207,"date":"2025-10-10T05:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/worlds-most-sensitive-table-top-experiment-sets-new-limits-on-very-high-frequency-gravitational-waves"},"modified":"2025-10-10T05:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:18:20","slug":"worlds-most-sensitive-table-top-experiment-sets-new-limits-on-very-high-frequency-gravitational-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/worlds-most-sensitive-table-top-experiment-sets-new-limits-on-very-high-frequency-gravitational-waves","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s most sensitive table-top experiment sets new limits on very high-frequency gravitational waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-most-sensitive-table-top-experiment-sets-new-limits-on-very-high-frequency-gravitational-waves.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s most sensitive table-top interferometric system\u2014a miniature version of miles-long gravitational-wave detectors like LIGO\u2014has completed its first science run.<\/p>\n<p>The Quantum Enhanced Space-Time measurement (QUEST) experiment, based in Cardiff University\u2019s School of Physics and Astronomy, aims to uncover the fundamental nature of space-time.<\/p>\n<p>QUEST can measure changes in length 100 trillion times smaller than the width of a human hair and has set a new record for sensitivity in just a three-hour experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s most sensitive table-top interferometric system\u2014a miniature version of miles-long gravitational-wave detectors like LIGO\u2014has completed its first science run. The Quantum Enhanced Space-Time measurement (QUEST) experiment, based in Cardiff University\u2019s School of Physics and Astronomy, aims to uncover the fundamental nature of space-time. QUEST can measure changes in length 100 trillion times smaller than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223207","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}