A deep dive into the motivation for behind my postdoc research. What do microwaves and lasers have to do with communication? And what changes when I insist on repeating the word “quantum” twice in every sentence?

Say the answer you get is 3 when you’re supposed to get 4. Did you do something wrong? And how does that make you feel?

Resonance can help us understand a deep connection between time and frequency characteristic of all waves, from light to acoustics to the wavefunctions of quantum mechanics.

Demystifying the tardigrade-induced frequency shift with a mass, a spring, and a trip to Singapore in the year 8022.

How the tools of quantum optomechanics could one day be used to put a macroscopic object into a quantum superposition.

Looking under the hood of an axion dark matter detector: how it works, how the laws of quantum mechanics limit its sensitivity, and why you shouldn’t hold your breath until dark matter is discovered.

A billion is a thousand million? Why wasn’t I informed of this?

During my first semester of grad school I worked as a teaching assistant for a freshman physics lab, where I occasionally encountered statements like “the mass of the ball was ten.”

Measuring in Reflection is a blog about the tools, experimental techniques, and concepts that physicists use to understand the world.