Photons (light particles) pass through a camera's lens and are captured by the cups in the tray.
The device may someday allow the development of quantum computers that are based on light particles rather than the movement of atoms.
They absorb photons (light particles) and then load them up with energy, "kicking" them out again to release different colours in the process.
"I thought that if you exchange very light particles such as electrons with protons, it must have some significant consequences," he said.
With these new devices, researchers, including this year's Nobel laureates, David J. Wineland and Serge Haroche, could trap and subtly manipulate individual atoms or light particles.
Glauber's prizewinning work centred on his development of a theory that advanced the understanding of light by describing the behaviour of light particles (light quanta, or photons).
But the Navy weapon does not blast anything; instead, it heats its target, bombarding it with light particles until it ablates, ignites or otherwise is damaged.
Clapping your hands switches to the Tracer, the only defence against projectiles, while raising both hands activates Euphoria, an explosion of light particles that clears the screen when things get hectic.
One promising area of physics research involves photonic crystals, tiny lattice structures that can be used to trap and manipulate light particles, or photons, much the way a semiconductor crystal manipulates electrons.
Drifting light particles draw you in, maybe the sky shifts in an instant from day to star-studded night, and wonderful choral music coaxes a human response to the fiction before you.
When the spectator makes a quick motion -- like raising a hand suddenly -- that area of the body explodes and scatters: light particles fly off the grid, like a barrage of blurry snowflakes rushing toward a windshield.
