# What Happens If You Slice a Photon in Half? Three Physicists Say You Get a Rainbow

Whip a mirror out of the path while a lone photon is midway through bouncing off it, and the result isn't half a photon heading one way with the other half going the opposite direction. What you get instead is a rainbow.That's the argument put forward by three Norwegian physicists in a new paper (th

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