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Escaping Photon Used to Challenge Energy-Time Uncertainty

Belgium · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1930

Albert Einstein1930

Brussels · Science / Physics

Einstein argued that measuring the mass loss of a timed photon box could in principle determine both the photon's energy and its emission time more precisely than quantum uncertainty allowed.

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Albert Einstein

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