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		rubidium on Jan 12, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Physicists ‘squeeze’ light to cool microscopic dru... No, it's a pretty traditional technique to "beat" quantum mechanics by using squeezed light states. Short version: you don't really beat quantum mechanics, you just shift where the uncertainty resides.

basicplus2 on Jan 12, 2017 [–]

So where does the uncertainty move to?

deepnotderp on Jan 12, 2017 | [–]

To a different subset of the Hilbert space. See here for beginners: http://www.squeezed-light.de

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