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Long-Awaited Breakthrough: Laser Excites Atomic Nuclei For Precision Measurement


Though we cannot see it, we live in a quantized world where the light that illuminates our days is made up of tiny packets of energy, and the atoms that constitute matter are similarly divided into discrete energy bands.

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