photons
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Scientists Made A Weird System To Study The Mysteries Of Photonic Crystals
When you see light, you’re looking at photons spat out by an excited atom. But what if instead of light, an excited atom released a wave of matter?
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Scientists Figured Out A Way To Cheat Newton’s Third Law
Ever since the late 17th century, it’s been understood that to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. That’s Newton’s Third Law of Motion. But a group of German scientists recently came up with a trick that appears to break that law, one that lets light accelerate all by itself. And it could…