Physicists show 'molecules' made of light may be possible

Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 13:00 in Physics & Chemistry

It's not lightsaber time, not yet. But a team including theoretical physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has taken another step toward building objects out of photons, and the findings hint that weightless particles of light can be joined into a sort of "molecule" with its own peculiar force.

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