the Speed of Light

[Kenny]

Err. . . that news is a bit old. Ten years old.

About a decade ago, [Harvard Physicist Lene Vestergaard Hau] started playing with BECs — for a physicist, that means shooting lasers at them. She blew up a few. Eventually, she found that lasers of the right wavelengths could tune the optical properties of a BEC, giving Hau an almost supernatural command over any other light shined into it. Her first trick was slowing a pulse of light to a crawl — 15 mph as it traveled through the BEC. Since then, Hau has completely frozen a pulse and then released it.
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Note that she was able to "freeze" light and release it.

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This is AMAZING! I wonder what kind of application one can use this ability with.

 

[BSM1]

This is AMAZING! I wonder what kind of application one can use this ability with.

First thing that comes to mind is that now it may be possible to turn out the light and be in bed before the room gets dark.

 

[Thief]

if I could move at the speed of light.....
I could earn a billion paychecks and not reach retirement

and spend it all just as fast

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

If you don't- don't worry about it. It's not important.

I see some others have posted links to the same things I'm finding, so I think I leave it at that.