{"id":247231,"date":"2026-11-12T23:22:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T05:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/physicists-say-theyve-sidestepped-a-nearly-100-year-old-quantum-limit-using-hindsight"},"modified":"2026-11-12T23:22:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T05:22:46","slug":"physicists-say-theyve-sidestepped-a-nearly-100-year-old-quantum-limit-using-hindsight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/physicists-say-theyve-sidestepped-a-nearly-100-year-old-quantum-limit-using-hindsight","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Say They\u2019ve Sidestepped a Nearly 100-Year-Old Quantum Limit Using Hindsight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uncertainty_principle\">Heisenberg uncertainty principle<\/a>, introduced by German physicist Werner Heisenberg in 1927, puts forward the concept of a certain fuzziness in physics. It says that if one characteristic of a quantum particle can be predicted with precision, a paired characteristic becomes less certain.<\/p>\n<p>Position and momentum are the most often-mentioned of these pairs, known as non-commuting variables. Being able to ascertain where a quantum particle is makes it harder to judge its movement, and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>That fuzziness makes it more difficult to take accurate measurements of weaker signals in physics \u2013 in everything from the LIGO gravitational wave detector to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/atomic-clocks-could-reveal-the-hidden-quantum-nature-of-time-itself\">atomic clocks<\/a> that underpin systems <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasa-beams-the-first-gps-signals-to-the-moon\">like GPS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Heisenberg uncertainty principle, introduced by German physicist Werner Heisenberg in 1927, puts forward the concept of a certain fuzziness in physics. It says that if one characteristic of a quantum particle can be predicted with precision, a paired characteristic becomes less certain. Position and momentum are the most often-mentioned of these pairs, known as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247231","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}