A team of physicists say they have found a way to sidestep Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, one of the more troublesome and irritating rules of our universe. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle , for the uninitiated, states that it is not possible to exactly measure or calculate both the position and momentum of an object at the same time.

With macroscopic objects, for example a basketball or Danny DeVito, the principle doesn't matter too much. For example, you could measure Danny DeVito's position using light, and know that the light you used hasn't pushed him hard enough for you to be uncertain about his momentum. But in the quantum realm, it becomes a real problem.

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