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Storing Light In Chips
Roland Piquepaille writes "Recently, researchers have "stopped light" by storing light pulses in hot or extremely cold gases (check these former stories on Slashdot or at BBC News Online). Now, scientists from Stanford University have devised a method to store light pulses under ordinary conditions. In Light-storing chip charted, Technology Research News says this opens the way for all-optical communications switches, quantum computers and quantum communications devices. The researchers plan to demonstrate this technique by trapping microwave signals within a year. They think that a prototype which works at optical frequencies could be made in two to five years. This overview contains more details and references."
Storing microwaves within a year isn't very hard. I mean a year is huge!
When can we step back into the past and correct someone else's mistakes?
Anything in parenthesis may (not) be ignored.
And to this date, nobody actually *tried* tying buttered toast to a cat's back, for the hovering-cat effect!
Dude, check out my light harddrive.
..Opens case, goes blind and loses content of computer
Sig it.
I have been storing light in my fridge for years. Even when it's dark outside and I check, it is still there...
Maybe the toast would just force it's buttered side to the floor, squishing the cat.