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Scientists discover new form of light
- gus_massa 10y agoThe experiment is interesting, but the press coverage is awful. The original article is a little too technical (linked in the OP): http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/4/e1501748.full http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/4/e1501748.full It's not a new form of light. The idea is that they use a weird quantum mechanic state of light to create a beam with only half of the expected angular momentum. It's not easy, it's weird, it's strange, perhaps it will have some applications in the future, but it's not necessary to rewrite all the light and quantum mechanic books.