Homeschooling is a cheat! You should be intensely handicapped by public education like the vulgate mob. The best way to guarantee equality is to cut everybody down to size. Every child left behind! That said...
How big are your particles? Are they charged? Handling massed uncharge particles requires some not inconsiderable degree of cleverness.
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http://www.scitoys.com/scitoys/scitoys/magnets/gauss.html http://www.quantum.univie.ac.at/research/matterwave/c60/ Diddling with photons is called "optics." If you want to diddle with photons that aren't there, try the Casimir effect.
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