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"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of physics.

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A thought experiment that was at the heart of an argument between famed physicists Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr in 1927 has finally been made real. Its findings elucidate one of the core mysteries ...