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Revolutionizing Time Travel: The Double-Slit Experiment Reimagined with Quantum Mechanics.
science2 years ago

Revolutionizing Time Travel: The Double-Slit Experiment Reimagined with Quantum Mechanics.

Physicists have recreated the famous double-slit experiment, which showed light behaving as particles and a wave, in time rather than space. The experiment relies on materials that can change their optical properties in fractions of a second, which could be used in new technologies or to explore fundamental questions in physics. This groundbreaking experiment could lead to the development of ultrafast, parallelized optical switches and pave the way for future research in time crystals and metamaterials.

"Light Waves Discover Unexpected Physics Through Slits in Time"
science2 years ago

"Light Waves Discover Unexpected Physics Through Slits in Time"

Physicists at Imperial College London have recreated the double-slit experiment, which showed light behaving as particles and a wave, in time rather than space. The experiment relies on materials that can change their optical properties in fractions of a second, which could be used in new technologies or to explore fundamental questions in physics. The team used a metamaterial that changes its reflectance in femtoseconds to create "slits" for light. The researchers want to explore the phenomenon in a "time crystal," which is analogous to an atomic crystal, but where the optical properties vary in time.