The bizarre discovery, detailed in a study that has yet to be peer-reviewed, stems from an experiment in which photons were fired into a cloud of atoms cooled to just above absolute zero. In cases where the photons passed through without interacting, researchers found that the atoms were still briefly excited, as though the photons had been absorbed and re-emitted. Meanwhile, when the photons were absorbed, they seemed to reappear before the atoms could even become excited.

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Hello @BrikoX@lemmy.zip,

I’m thinking about closing !interestingasfuck@lemm.ee, and to redirect to this community instead.

You can have a look over there, it was mostly pictures or videos of interesting things, do you think this kind of content would also fit here?

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When my car does this I call it “Subaru time”

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Here comes the time machine!

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Hmm, probably worth double checking no one was reheating their coffee in the microwave during the experiment.

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