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Learn about a virtual slow-motion camera that can capture photons or light particles moving through space which may be useful in medical imaging, in industrial or scientific use or even in consumer photography

Discover how a laser beam emits light

Benefits and dangers of pine resin to ants

The science behind the color black

Understand the concept of teleportation and how quantum mechanics makes photon teleportation possible

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Also Known As	light quantum

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Learn about a virtual slow-motion camera that can capture photons or light particles moving through space which may be useful in medical imaging, in industrial or scientific use or even in consumer photography

Discover how a laser beam emits light

Benefits and dangers of pine resin to ants

The science behind the color black

Understand the concept of teleportation and how quantum mechanics makes photon teleportation possible

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graviton photino subatomic particle light boson lepton colour gluon hadron intermediate vector boson quark CP violation symmetry quantum field theory Higgs boson

Key People

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

German-American physicist

Arthur Holly Compton

Arthur Holly Compton

American physicist

Serge Haroche.

Serge Haroche

French physicist

Glauber, Roy J.

Roy J. Glauber

American physicist

Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

British physicist