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Can We Really Create Infinite Photons? Physicists Reveal What Might Happen if We Try to Cut Light in Half
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Ivan Farkas
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Physicists from the University of Oslo have theorized that attempting to 'cut' a photon using a shutter could result in the creation of multiple new photons. This counterintuitive result highlights the complex nature of quantum superposition and particle behavior.
Add ScienceAlert on Google A visualization of a photon, courtesy of researchers at the University of Birmingham. (Benjamin Yuen/University of Birmingham) Photons act in freaky ways that remind us that nothing is as it seems at the smallest scales and most fundamental levels of existence .
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