Speed
Radiolab
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The Optical Molasses
The heroine of our story is lena vestago. How that a tat hyphene? No, that vestago is my middle name. And my first name is lena. So lina is assisted harvard, and she has done something with speed that is just remarkable. That's the only way to saywell, erif we sort of step back once we ask her to walk us through - because it's totally worth it. We start out with a clump of room temperature sodium. At room temperature, sodium is actually a nice, shiny metal. Lena and her team,. they take the sodium, they put it in an oven, heated up exactly. As it heats up
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