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For Tiny Light Particles, 'Before' and 'After' Mean Nothing
space.com ^ | September 20, 2018 10:21am ET | Yasemin Saplakoglu, Live Science Staff Writer |

Posted on 09/21/2018 8:19:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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“Branciard and his team programmed and observed how a photon — a quantum particle of light — moved its way through a circuit. The photon could take one of two paths: If the photon took one path, they called the occurrence event A, and if it took the other, they called it event B.”

If I understand correctly, in the weird realm of quantum mechanics particles can be in both places at the same time.

“’Quantum theory dictates that a very tiny thing can absorb energy only in discrete amounts, can never sit perfectly still, and can literally be in two places at once,’”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/einstein-was-right-you-can-be-in-two-places-at-once-2162648.html


21 posted on 09/22/2018 6:34:20 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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