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Ben Brubaker

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quantum physics

Physicists Pin Down How Quantum Uncertainty Sharpens Measurements

By Ben Brubaker
May 3, 2022
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Throwing out data seems to make measurements of distances and angles more precise. The reason why has been traced to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.

astronomy

Four Years On, New Experiment Sees No Sign of ‘Cosmic Dawn’

By Ben Brubaker
February 28, 2022
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When astronomers tried to confirm a signal from the birth of the first stars after the Big Bang, they saw nothing.

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explainers

How the Physics of Resonance Shapes Reality

By Ben Brubaker
January 26, 2022
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The same phenomenon by which an opera singer can shatter a wineglass also underlies the very existence of subatomic particles.

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explainers

How Bell’s Theorem Proved ‘Spooky Action at a Distance’ Is Real

By Ben Brubaker
July 20, 2021
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The root of today’s quantum revolution was John Stewart Bell’s 1964 theorem showing that quantum mechanics really permits instantaneous connections between far-apart locations.

About the author

Ben Brubaker is a freelance science journalist whose writing has appeared in Quanta Magazine, Scientific American and The Conversation, as well as on his blog, Measuring in Reflection. He has a PhD in physics from Yale University and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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