{"id":25663,"date":"2016-05-13T05:37:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T12:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/quantum-leap-forward-in-measuring-mechanical-motion"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:53:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:53:02","slug":"quantum-leap-forward-in-measuring-mechanical-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/quantum-leap-forward-in-measuring-mechanical-motion","title":{"rendered":"Quantum leap forward in measuring mechanical motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-leap-forward-in-measuring-mechanical-motion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" alt=\"Quantum leap forward in measuring mechanical motion\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-leap-forward-in-measuring-mechanical-motion.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Shutterstock.<\/p>\n<p>The precise measurement of position has a distinguished place in physics; about a 100 years ago, debate surrounding the atomic hypothesis was settled by the careful observation of Brownian motion. Today, researchers in the field of cavity quantum optomechanics hope to settle similar fundamental questions.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/182753_en.html\">http:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/result\/rcn\/182753_en.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Shutterstock. The precise measurement of position has a distinguished place in physics; about a 100 years ago, debate surrounding the atomic hypothesis was settled by the careful observation of Brownian motion. Today, researchers in the field of cavity quantum optomechanics hope to settle similar fundamental questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25663","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50510,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25663\/revisions\/50510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}