DARPA: Light can now be slowed down at the turn of a knob, at room temperature.

[Elexar]

[quote]The device relies on quantum interference effects in a rubidium vapor inside a hollow-core optical waveguide that is built into a silicon chip using standard manufacturing techniques. [/quote]
:psyduck:

[Orkel]

[quote]Slow glass is a fictional material in Bob Shaw's short story "Light of other days" (Analog, 1966), and several subsequent stories. The glass, which delays the passage of light by years or decades, is used to construct windows, called scenedows, that enable city dwellers, submariners and prisoners to watch "live" countryside scenes.[/quote]

Intriguing, I wonder if that is possible at all.

[meppers]

I can't wait for DARPA to invent the T-1000

:psylon:

[Sir Muffin]

[QUOTE=keroba2;24675315]No, because when the photons enter space they will have c0, which is the "normal" speed of light, also called vacuum light speed.[/QUOTE]

Geek mode engaged.

Depending on what you're talking about, it seems like a lot of the devices in Star Wars (and it's EU) aren't purely laser beams. For instance, blasters typically fired energy bolts from excited gases...

I've said too much. Please don't hurt me for knowing that.

[Mauzer]

I want DARPA to do another robot race across the desert :v:

[Elexar]

[QUOTE=Sir Muffin;24688283]Geek mode engaged.

Depending on what you're talking about, it seems like a lot of the devices in Star Wars (and it's EU) aren't purely laser beams. For instance, blasters typically fired energy bolts from excited gases...

I've said too much. Please don't hurt me for knowing that.[/QUOTE]

That's more nerd than geek.

[Dacheet]

[QUOTE=Elexar;24688415]That's more nerd than geek.[/QUOTE]

A nerd is an intelligent person with a flaw, while a geek is a sideshow freak.

[1337]

The light would still be traveling at 900,000 km/h.

[MrOwn1]

fuck yeah science :science: