Physicists Find Fundamental Clock Limit in 2 Quantum Collapse Models
Updated
Updated · ScienceDaily · Sep 11
Physicists Find Fundamental Clock Limit in 2 Quantum Collapse Models
2 articles · Updated · ScienceDaily · Sep 11
Summary
An international team calculated that time may carry a tiny intrinsic uncertainty, implying an ultimate ceiling on how precisely any clock can measure it.
The result comes from analyzing 2 quantum collapse models—Diósi-Penrose and Continuous Spontaneous Localization—and linking spontaneous wavefunction collapse to gravity-driven spacetime fluctuations.
The predicted effect is many orders of magnitude below the reach of today’s best atomic clocks, leaving current and foreseeable timekeeping technology unaffected.
Published in Physical Review Research, the work offers a potential experimental route to distinguish collapse models from standard quantum mechanics and a possible clue toward unifying quantum theory with gravity.