A new quantum device defies the concepts of ‘before’ and ‘after’
The apparatus works by putting particles of light through a series of two operations
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FIRST OR LAST Scientists have given a sequence of events the quantum treatment. Two events, A and B, occur in both orders simultaneously: A before B, and B before A.
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