Norwegian physicists yank a mirror mid-reflection, and the photon won’t just split
Chopping a photon in half sounds impossible, until a moving mirror changes the rules mid-process and releases new photons.

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Chopping a photon in half sounds impossible, until a moving mirror changes the rules mid-process and releases new photons.
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