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Edited by Jim McCrory, Sunday, 4 Aug 2024, 09:07

Did you ever play Follow the Leader as a kid? The idea was to mimic the leader and the best mimicker was the winner.

Did you know that there is intriguing research going on that suggests that photons can be "split" into halves? This theoretical discovery introduces a new entity known as a "Majorana boson." But wait, there’s more. It is believed if you split it, its twin does the follow the leader thing — if there is such a leader. When one half turns, the other does also. It is theorised that if you set the two halves a light-year apart, they will still behave in the same manner. Time will tell. Well not really. We cannot travel a light year; not unless we get ‘Doc Brown’ on the job. Anyway, humour aside it all takes us back to that first statement,

And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.’ Genesis 1:3

 

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