Freaky Science.

[swestrup]

Okay, this one is right up there with the quantum entanglement of holes for its ability to hurt my head. Scientists have now successfully stored and retrieved a squeezed vacuum. Now, a squeezed vacuum is one that would have certain effects on light moving through it, if there was light. So, they managed to store this vacuum, and then retrieve it and pass light though it to show it still had this property. So, they

1. made a special kind of nothing
2. stored it
3. got it back again; and
4. proved it was the same special kind of nothing.

Before I read this article, I didn't even know you could squeeze a vacuum, never mind store the results.