• German Scientists Manage to Freeze Light
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[Quote]In what could prove to be a major breakthrough in quantum memory storage and information processing, German researchers have frozen the fastest thing in the universe: light. And they did so for a record-breaking one minute.[/quote] They managed to freeze fuckin' light using lasers. Source: [url]http://www.thinkinghumanity.com/2013/10/scientists-freeze-light-for-an-entire-minute.html?m=1[/url]
Didn't they do this before?, I'm pretty sure I remember reading about a story where they managed to slow down light with lasers and then shortly after there was a story about completely "freezing" light ... there, found it [URL="http://io9.com/scientists-freeze-light-for-an-entire-minute-912634479"]http://io9.com/scientists-freeze-light-for-an-entire-minute-912634479[/URL] [URL="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23925-light-completely-stopped-for-a-recordbreaking-minute.html#.UfFnLWRVBu0"]http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23925-light-completely-stopped-for-a-recordbreaking-minute.html#.UfFnLWRVBu0[/URL] [URL="http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/80"]http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/80[/URL] This is from 7/25/13 ... [IMG]http://puu.sh/7sXLD/845d723dbb.png[/IMG]
German space magic.
What witchcraft is this?
Alt source: [url]http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/80[/url]
They froze something that moves 300 million metres per second. Just saying it sounds cool. I hope they can elaborate from this and find uses for it.
[QUOTE=Shreddinger;44215994]Didn't they do this before?, I'm pretty sure I remember reading about a story where they managed to slow down light with lasers and then shortly after there was a story about completely "freezing" light ... there, found it [URL="http://io9.com/scientists-freeze-light-for-an-entire-minute-912634479"]http://io9.com/scientists-freeze-light-for-an-entire-minute-912634479[/URL] [URL="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23925-light-completely-stopped-for-a-recordbreaking-minute.html#.UfFnLWRVBu0"]http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23925-light-completely-stopped-for-a-recordbreaking-minute.html#.UfFnLWRVBu0[/URL] [URL="http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/80"]http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/80[/URL] This is from 7/25/13 ... [IMG]http://puu.sh/7sXLD/845d723dbb.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] They did but this time they managed it for a full minute. Also I couldn't find an article date (on mobile) and the comments were recent, so i'm sorry.
How long before we can eat it?
[QUOTE=DeVotchKa;44216087]They did but this time they managed it for a full minute. Also I couldn't find an article date (on mobile) and the comments were recent, so i'm sorry.[/QUOTE] Well it's okay but it's older than 3 months so it's not News ...
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