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Photon Box Thought Experiment Presented

At the Solvay Conference Einstein proposed a box-and-clock thought experiment intended to challenge the energy-time uncertainty relation by weighing a box before and after a photon escaped.

Albert Einstein photographed in Princeton in 1947
Albert Einstein, Princeton, 1947. Photograph by Oren Jack Turner; Library of Congress image with no known restrictions. Wikimedia Commons source.
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Photon Box Thought Experiment Presented

1930 · Brussels · Belgium · Physics

At the Solvay Conference Einstein proposed a box-and-clock thought experiment intended to challenge the energy-time uncertainty relation by weighing a box before and after a photon escaped.