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Stop and restart light?
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:48 pm
by Cereb Daithi
this is an old article i just found... i havent looked into recent developments into this.. but its pretty friggn cool
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/200 ... light.html
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:12 pm
by Mr Kleen
once this is perfected, light computers will enable the NSA to finally sort all that data they've been collecting...
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:28 pm
by snaab
The mere fact that someone could even fathom this goes completely beyond my realm of comprehension.
The real question is: when do we get moving sidewalks everywhere, like in the Jetsons??
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:43 pm
by Mr Kleen
saddly, airports hold the patent on moving sidewalks.
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:45 pm
by sirwilliam
Then Hau shoots a yellow-orange laser beam into the cloud of atoms, and the light emerges at full speed and intensity.
What if you just fart into the cloud of atoms, what happens to the stopped light then?
Sorry, I am just "tired silly".
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:43 pm
by sirwilliam
Here is an updated article:
LINKY
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:28 am
by snaab
sirwilliam wrote:Here is an updated article:
LINKY
Updated article? They're moving at
the speed of light!
