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Quantum Computing & Tech ⚛️ on Instagram: "This is not CGI. It’s a single atom. Captured by physicist David Nadlinger, this image shows one strontium atom suspended between two electrodes, held in place by electromagnetic fields inside a vacuum chamber. When blasted with precision lasers, the atom absorbs and re-emits light so strongly that it becomes visible to the naked eye. A fundamental building block of reality, isolated and glowing. Quantum physics made human-scale. Follow @uncover.quantum

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FutureGen Quantum on Instagram: "Quantum tunneling is one of the strangest effects in physics…a particle can appear on the other side of a barrier without breaking it…like a ball magically passing through a window. Impossible for us…but totally normal in the quantum world ⚛️ It’s also the reason the Sun shines. Hydrogen nuclei normally repel each other…but tunneling lets them slip through the barrier and fuse…releasing the energy that becomes sunlight ☀️ Without quantum tunneling…fusion wouldn’t