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Putting the man-hunter and woman-gatherer myth to the sword, and the electron's dipole moment gets closer to zero

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The Effect of the Electric Field on the Energy Levels of a Molecule

This is all happening on a lab bench, basically. We're trying to see if the electrons inside of the molecule that we have trapped respond to the electric field in a way that would show their energy levels shifting around. So you can have kind of two answers here. It can be zero, or it can be a value. And either way, it tells you something about the world and the history of the universe and a lot of things.

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