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Scientists create matter and antimatter by light
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Scientists create matter and antimatter by light

A team of researchers from the Institute of Applied Physics at the Russian Academy of Sciences (IAP RAS) has announced that they have calculated how to create matter and…

December 18, 2018
Are there restrictions for the eyes?
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Are there restrictions for the eyes?

Think about whether you can distinguish 1 million colors, recognize a single photon, look as far as the nearby galaxy. That was great enough!

December 18, 2018
The world's smallest sculpture
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The world's smallest sculpture

A sculpture depicting a human shape smaller than a hair created by 3D printing technology and multi-photon lithography.

December 18, 2018
Light granular or waveform?
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Light granular or waveform?

A recent experiment (November 2) by scientists at the University of Bristol in England showed for the first time that light in the form of particles and waves simultaneo…

December 18, 2018
How far can human eyes be?
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How far can human eyes be?

The vision of the human eye can extend as far as the horizon. If the Earth is flat (not the present sphere), you can even feel the light hundreds of miles away and at ni…

December 18, 2018
Can't travel through time
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Can't travel through time

Single photon cannot pass the speed of light, just like Einstein's theory. Hoping to go through time is mentioned about 10 years ago, when scientists discovered ...

December 18, 2018
Does the photon have refused glimpse?
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Does the photon have refused glimpse?

Can photons be able to say that they are about to be seen by someone? John Wheeler first made a hypothesis to explain this singularity by approaching a new trend in the…

December 18, 2018
The speed of light can be slowed down
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The speed of light can be slowed down

Quantum computers that use photons instead of electrons will become a reality when researchers from NTT (Japan) extend the travel time of light to store data.

December 18, 2018