Physicists may need to tweak what they think they know about Werner Heisenberg’s famous uncertainty principle.
Measuring light particles doesn’t push them as far into the realm of quantum fuzziness as once thought, new research suggests. The work doesn’t invalidate the principle underlying all of modern quantum theory, but may have implications for supersecure cryptography and other quantum applications.
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