Einstein's box

Einstein's box

[
thumb|right|200px|_Einstein's thought experiment of 1930 as designed by Bohr. Einstein's box was supposed to prove the violation of the indeterminacy relation between time and energy.]

Einstein's box is a theoretical chamber in a thought experiment, from which trapped light is released one photon at a time.

A group of French physicists claim to have built such a box, 1.1 inches big, which allows them to capture a photon for a seventh of a second. [http://web.archive.org/web/20070328033211/http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/03/15/quantumcomputing_tec.html?category=technology&guid=20070315150030 Photons Trapped for Record Time] ]

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