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Transmitting information without using energy:

Transmitting information without using energy:

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http://phys.org/news/2015-03-photon-afterglow-transmit-transmitting-energy.html

If quantum mechanics wasn't freaky enough already🙂

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Am I missing something. Doesn't magnetism transmit both information and energy with out transmitting a particle?

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Originally posted by twhitehead
Am I missing something. Doesn't magnetism transmit both information and energy with out transmitting a particle?
Sure, but you have to use energy to transmit information. The transmission side of the equation for the photon afterglow does not use energy. The receive does use energy though.

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