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Einstein’s double-slit challenge finally meets single-atom precision

Can a photon be caught behaving like a wave and a particle in the same run of an experiment? For almost a century, that ...

Double-slit with single atom shows quantum to classical transition

A single atom as a movable slit: Researchers realize Einstein's thought experiment in original form, observing ...

Einstein Wrong in Bohr Debate, New Experiment Proves 98 Years Later

Physicists in China have brought one of Einstein’s thought experiments into reality—but not quite with the outcome he hoped ...
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Particle, wave, both or neither? The experiment that challenges all we know about reality

Thomas Young, born 250 years ago this week, was a polymath who made seminal contributions in fields from physics to Egyptology. But perhaps his most enduring legacy is proving Isaac Newton wrong about ...