I can’t wrap my mind around this, I’m trying to figure out if [this](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-023-01272-3) is being misinterpreted around the interwebs. Did they use an image of the Yin-Yang symbols and the waves in the image are the photons? Or are the photons making a yin-yang shape?
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You’re looking at figure 6 in the paper. The image has a small inset picture of a yin -yang symbol, which is what was input into the system. That symbol was created by the researchers to be used as a reference. It then went through the process described in the paper – what that prices is, isn’t really relevant – and the large black and white image on the left is what they detected.
This piece of the experiment is to show that if you input an image you can use their method to get an accurate representation of that image. If they go on to use this method practically, they won’t know what the input looks like.
But even if they had discovered some atomic structure that looked like a yin-yang symbol, why would that be exciting? It’s not a particularly intricate or unusual symbol. I can easily imagine it cropping up in nature naturally. And there are lots of other pictures on that paper that aren’t yin-yang symbols. Are we going to attach mystic significance to an archery target because it looks like the concentric circles image?
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