Photons
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In solar panels,
photons
from the sun's rays hit the surface of a panel, and electrons are released to get an electric current going.
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The reason that you can see me standing here is because this room is filled with more than 100 quintillion photons, and they're moving randomly through the space, near the speed of light.
It also uses photons, but they're all synchronized, and if you focus them into a beam, what you have is an incredibly useful tool.
And the atoms themselves are quite violent, but if you fire lasers that are precisely tuned to the right frequency, an atom will briefly absorb those
photons
and tend to slow down.
For example, if you shine light through a superfluid, it is able to slow
photons
down to 60 kilometers per hour.
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