http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/11/frozenlight.advance.ap/index.html(AP) -- Physicists say they have brought light to a complete halt for a fraction of a second and then sent it on its way, an achievement that could someday help scientists develop powerful new computers.
The research differs from work published in 2001 that was hailed at the time as having brought light to standstill.
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Harvard University researchers have now topped that feat by truly holding light and its energy in its tracks -- if only for a few hundred-thousandths of a second.
"We have succeeded in holding a light pulse still without taking all the energy away from it," said Mikhail D. Lukin, a Harvard physicist. But I wanna know is, now that they can bring light down to our level, when're they gonna start moving matter (by which I mean spaceships) at light-speed? THAT would have my undivided attention.
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