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Also Known As light quantum

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Compton effect
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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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