
Do photons bump into each other?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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What Do Light Sabres Really Make?
We don't have microphones in the kolider, so we can't tell what sound it made when those two photons smashed into each other. It could be that we didn't see it, or that the photons came out even wer or angles, which would mean that maybe the photons interact in different ways from the way we expect. That's one of these reasons that we do these really high precision cross checks of little details of particle physics because it could be in one of those details we find something weird.
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