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>The spell doesn't stop air, does it?
The only thing the spell stops is damage so the answer to that question is trivially no (to a first approximation).
AD&D says total invulnerability to small/normal missiles, damage reduction against large/magical (i.e. enchanted, not conjured/evoked) missiles. If you want to interpret that as stopping that's your head canon not by the book. It could just as easily be the missile missing its mark or reducing to a lesser-/non-damaging speed or energy.
DND3 might be easier to understand as it provides protection against ranged weapons. This would include laser guns, ion cannon, etc.
If one sufficiently cools a particular fraction of air one can fashion a mundane projectile that would be affected by the spell if the projectile were hurled. Solid lead bullets if hurled would be protected against and I can't see any reason why molten lead globules if hurled wouldn't also be protected against. It doesn't look at all like state of matter matters. An air cannon capable of inflicting damage would be protected against too. I wouldn't say air for breathing generally counts as hurled or projected and doesn't cause damage so why you would construe the spell as stopping normal air for breathing is a mystery.

>Air is "particles."
Air is composed of particles not "particles". The scare quotes are inappropriate.

>In terms of real physics, yes. In terms of how spells work, no.
It's almost as if real world physics doesn't mesh well with rules created for a fantasy game.

>Because the spell doesn't stop light either.
Repeating that the AD&D 1 through DND3 say nothing about stopping a projectile, that would depend. 3rd edition rules would certainly reduce damage from a laser gun which indeed projects light. One might run into trouble with a laser sword made of a beam firing at a diverging lens (to limit its effective length) as the beam itself is of a projectile nature and also if such a sword were thrown but what what DMs are for.

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Will their skills and spells be enough?