According to Live Science, physicists have discovered something surprising about light itself. When researchers split a single photon—a basic unit of electromagnetic radiation—it doesn't break neatly into two smaller pieces. Instead, it transforms into a complex quantum state containing a swarm of particles. This counterintuitive behavior challenges conventional thinking about how fundamental particles behave and could reshape our understanding of photon nature at the quantum level.

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