By definition, elementary particles can't be broken into smaller pieces. But in a new theoretical study published in Physical Review Letters, Johannes Skaar and colleagues have revealed what would happen if you tried anyway for a single photon. The answer is deeply strange: attempting to cut a photon in two wouldn't produce two smaller photons, but instead conjure an infinite number of them out of thin air.
Not a physicist, but after reading I’m pretty sure they said it creates an whole bunch of possible positions, which is distinctly different from creating a whole bunch of new particles.
Also not a physicist, probability is far too complex for journelists to be able to explain in a short headline, and often full articles. So we get things like this.
Well, that’s the problem right there, then: using “journelists” will net Temu results. ☝🏼