Sentences with phrase «photons sent on their way»

With increasing size of the optical arrangement and increasing numbers of photons sent on their way, the number of possible paths and distributions of the photons at the end rises steeply as a result of the uncertainty principle which underlies quantum mechanics — so that there can be no prediction of the exact probability using the computers available to us today.

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Information based on photons has great advantages; photons interact only very weakly with the environment — unlike electrons, so photons do not lose much energy along the way and can therefore be sent over long distances.