Illustration of a Molecule (IMAGE)

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Illustration of a Molecule

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This is an illustration of a molecule in the presence of gravitational time dilation. The molecule is in a quantum superposition of being in several places at the same time, but time dilation destroys this quantum phenomenon.

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Copyright: Igor Pikovski, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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