Even better, the physicists were able to get the light back out of the rubidium. The beam of light will come out again. Stein said the applications, beyond the use of light in a quantum computer, are not clear. But the same was true of lasers when they were first invented. They used sodium atoms for their experiment, and were also able to store the light and get it back out again.
Light travels in packages called photons, which have properties resembling both waves and particles.
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