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May 21, 2016

Photonic billiards might be the newest game
Washington DC (SPX) May 20, 2016
When one snooker ball hits another, both spring away from each other in an elastic manner. In the case of two photons a similar process - the elastic collision - has never been observed. Physicists from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences have shown, however, that such a process does not only occur, but even could soon be registered in heavy ion collisions at the LHC accelerator. When photons collide with each other, do they act like billiard balls, springing away fr ... read more

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