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https://gizmodo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/31/ufcczlbwlak2zeznd2a9.png?quality=75&w=600600338In the 1950s, when physicists were racing to invent the first laser, they found that the rules of quantum mechanics restricted how pure the colour of their light could be. Since then, physicists and engineers have always built lasers with those restrictions in mind. But new theoretical research from two independent groups of physicists indicates […]