SMRTR Science & EngineeringJun 17, 2026Live Science

Physicists split apart a photon and ended up with an improbable swarm of particles

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When physicists simulated slicing a photon with a shutter, they discovered something unexpected: instead of simply splitting, the photon produced a complex swarm ranging from zero to infinitely many particles. This challenges basic assumptions about how particles behave and could reshape our understanding of particle interactions.

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