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Stopping Light

Posted by Hemos on from the but-isn't-it-just-night? dept.

Jon Abbott writes "NASA is reporting that physicists at Harvard University have managed to stop light altogether. The implications of this discovery are rather staggering -- quantum encryption and quantum computers might be just around the corner! " Well, I don't think this will mean any immediate changes - but it is a significant step.

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  1. All you have to do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Is put CowboyNeal in front of the light beam. He would stop anything.

    1. Re:All you have to do by Bob+McCown · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      And if you shone the light just past him, maybe we'd get that neat light-bending effect that astronomers use to find planets.

  2. A little outdated are we? by cicci0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I must have read a story like this at least 4 times in the last year. Here's an example - http://hackensackhigh.org/light.html Looks like one of the monkeys at /. was playing with his bannana