What Happens if You Cut a Photon in Half? The Answer Is Trippy

Per io9, here's a quantum mechanics question that sounds impossible: what happens if you cut a photon in half? The answer, it turns out, perfectly illustrates why physicists find quantum behavior so fascinating — it operates by rules that contradict our everyday intuitions about reality.

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