text: Quantum fluctuations can jiggle objects on human scale | Mirage News
  July 2, 2020 2:13 am AESTDate Time
  It turns out the quantum noise in LIGO's detectors is enough to move the large mirrors by 10-20 meters – a displacement that was predicted by quantum mechanics for an object of this size, but that had never before been measured.
  "A hydrogen atom is 10-10 meters, so this displacement of the mirrors is to a hydrogen atom what a hydrogen atom is to us – and we measured that," says Lee McCuller, a research scientist at MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.
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