Another best abstract ever

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Following up on my last post, here’s another example of beautifully clear writing:

The interferometers now being developed to detect gravitational vaves work by measuring small changes in the positions of free masses. There has been a controversy whether quantum-mechanical radiation-pressure fluctuations disturb this measurement. This Letter resolves the controversy: They do.

This was brought to my attention in the PSU colloquium this week by Dan Stamper-Kurn.