Photons
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The human eye is an amazing mechanism, able to detect anywhere from a few
photons
to direct sunlight, or switch focus from the screen in front of you to the distant horizon in a third of a second.
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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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