Photons swim upstream through a light flow by violating Newton's third law

Researchers observe photons propagating against the current in a quantum fluid.

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The experiment, conducted on a Bose-Einstein condensate, challenges classical laws of motion.

This discovery paves the way for quantum communications and nonlinear optics.

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