The result is that the atoms interact with the beam, are drawn into it, and settle at the tip of the cone a phenomenon known as dipole trapping.

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As we poke about the town, which spirals up out of the plain like the tip of a caramel ice cream cone, the first snowflakes drift down, foreshadowing an impending storm.

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