Tweezers made from laser beams can hold and move a single atom Aepsilon/Shutterstock
The way gravity affects the quantum realm has so far remained mysterious. But an experiment that uses lasers as a pair of tweezers could let researchers assess how Earths gravitational pull affects an atom that ticks like a clock.
At extremely cold temperatures think billionths of a degree above absolute zero quantum effects make atoms behave like matter waves rather than particles. Physicists have long taken advantage of this: by colliding…
