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Physicists tend to think of light in terms of photons: massless, elementary particles “carrying” the forces of nature. And elementary particles, like the photon, are indivisible.…
Getting a glass bead to act like a quantum object by entangling it with light.

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Getting a glass bead to act like a quantum object by entangling it with light.
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