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Physicists unveil 1D gas made of pure light

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Scientists at the University of Bonn have created a one -dimensional gas made out of pure light.

They created the new state of matter, called a photon gas, by firing a laser into a reflective container filled with dye.

Photons are bosons, particles that have integer spin, meaning they can occupy the same state and space at a given time.