Light Wave-Particle Weirdness (4 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Light Wave-Particle Weirdness (4 of 6)

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Artist's impression, inspired by the work of the artist Maurits Cornelis Escher, of the continuous morphing between particle- and wave-like behavior of light achieved in the Bristol experiment. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 2, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Alberto Peruzzo, Peter Shadbolt, and colleagues at the University of Bristol in Bristol, UK, was titled, "A Quantum Delayed-Choice Experiment."

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Image courtesy of Alberto Peruzzo, Peter Shadbolt, Nicolas Brunner, and Jamie Simmonds

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