measurement

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"While a laser looks to the naked eye like a steady beam, there's actually a lot of fluctuation, which causes noise when you're using lasers for measurement," says Vamivakas.

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

These features allow the quantum signal and reference beam to interact in a controlled way, enabling simultaneous measurement of two conjugate quadratures.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

We are overwriting a signal the body is already sending, and we’re doing it at scale, in millions of people, without a baseline measurement to tell us what we’re overwriting.

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2026

The show averaged about 1.2 million viewers a night from January 2025 to January 2026, according to audience measurement company Médiamétrie.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

This is stunningly close to the modern value for the speed of light, 299,792 kilometres per second, given that it was the first measurement, ever, of this speed.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin