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"The concept of time has troubled philosophers and physicists for thousands of years, and the advent of quantum mechanics has not simplified the problem," says Professor Hugo Dil, a physicist at EPFL. "The central problem is the general role of time in quantum mechanics, and especially the timescale associated with a quantum transition."
At the smallest scales, physical processes unfold at astonishing speeds. Events such as tunneling or an electron shifting to...
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