Quantum Light
Fluorescent lights work by heating a source of electrons that zoom through the tube and collide with atoms of mercury vapor. Quantum physics describes what happens next: The collision causes some electrons in the mercury atoms to jump to higher orbits, as if one of the moons of Jupiter were suddenly...
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