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A magnetar may have done what no lab can: bend light in apparently empty space
Observations of magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408 point to vacuum birefringence, the effect Heisenberg predicted in the 1930s. The team calls it a possible first detection, not a confirmed one.
Publishers:sciencedaily.com
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