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A sealed chip used to create a magnet-based informer. Photography: Yair Margalit

A device that will make it possible to answer one of the central questions in physics that remain unanswered

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More than 70 years ago, scientists in the field of physics came up with an idea to use magnetic fields and an atomic property called spin in order to put a body in two places at the same time. Now, a research group from Ben-Gurion University in the Negev
Navigation with an atomic clock. Image: vectorara/Shutterstock

One watch in two places at the same time

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A real picture of a group of atoms (in a gaseous state), where each atom is in both the upper group and the lower group, at the same time. The color is not real and represents the density of atoms. Photo: Shimon Makloof

Physicists at Ben-Gurion University made the atom be in two different places at the same time

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Atomic clock. Illustration: shutterstock

The planning of the next generation of atomic clocks will be carried out at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev

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