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Re:Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle by randomaxes on Sunday April 02, 2017 @09:54PM (#14020137)
This is a technique called squeezing, it in no way violates our fundamental understanding of physics. Heisenberg uncertainty is generally: 1/2ћ ≤ ΔxΔp. If you measure something in a way that you have complete uncertainty in the quantity p then you can have arbitrarily fine resolution in x.

It's interesting, but squeezing is a common technique, and this headline misrepresents the importance of this experiment.

Re:Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle by jessriedel on Sunday April 02, 2017 @10:16PM (#14020187)
It's not just the headline. Sentences like this are false:

> ...measure the spin precession rate much more accurately than previously thought possible.

since no one thought different.