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The photons are smaller than the distance between atoms in the material.

Brian Dennis

The engine would be in orbit, producing a beam of photons. The spacecraft would not have to carry that mass along.

William Henry Harrison

The energy of the X-ray photons is so great that once absorbed by the molecule they eject an electron from the atom, leaving an ion behind.

Paul Withers

The pattern in which photons are blocked or not blocked had never really been computed. In the laboratory, we were able to construct a device that was effectively like doing a computer simulation to see the patterns of transmission.

Paul Steinhardt

Photons have neither morality nor visas.

David Farber