Bending most light is straightforward; bending it in gamma ray form, however, has often been deemed impossible given how hard it's for electrons to react to the acute frequencies. University of Munich scientist Dietrich Habs and his Institut Laue-Langevin teammate Michael Jentschel have proven that assumption wrong: an experiment in blasting a silicon prism has shown that gamma rays will refract just slightly during the right material. If a lens is created from a enormous-atom substance like gold to bend the rays further, the researchers envision focused beams of energy that may either detect radioactive material or maybe make it inert by wiping off neutrons and protons. In theory, it will turn a nuclear power plant's waste harmless. a realistic use of the technology continues to be a long way off -- but that it's even close by in any respect just seems like a breakthrough.
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