'However, they found that in certain collisions, the solitons approached one another, maintained a minimum gap between themselves, and then appeared to bounce a

'However, they found that in certain collisions, the solitons approached one another, maintained a minimum gap between themselves, and then appeared to bounce away from the collision.' 'The team found a way to “tag” one soliton by making it larger than the other.' “In the out-of-phase case, the one with the gap, where it appeared that they had been bouncing off of each other, we still saw the gap but we also saw the larger soliton emerge unfazed on the other side of the gap. In other words, it jumped through the gap!” Had the strangest feeling that they might have broken something...