Long-awaited breakthrough: laser excites atomic nuclei for precision measurement

Long-awaited breakthrough: laser excites atomic nuclei for precision measurement

Although we can’t see it, we live in a quantized world where the light that illuminates our days is made up of tiny bundles of energy, and the atoms that make up matter are similarly divided into discrete bands of energy. Like coins in a slot machine, dropping the right quanta of light on an … Read more