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MIT Study Reveals Why a Neutrino Laser May Be Impossible


Physicists proposed a way to focus ghostly neutrinos into a laser-like beam, but new MIT calculations show that violent atomic recoil and the particles’ own quantum nature prevent the effect from taking hold.

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