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Harvard Physicists Make Light Dance

Posted by kdawson on from the not-so-fast dept.

tetrikphimvin and others clued us to the latest work by Harvard's Lene Vestergaard Hau, being published today in the journal Nature. The NYTimes has a good layman's overview of how Hau's team encoded a light beam in a clump of atoms and later reconstituted it elsewhere. The Harvard Gazette offers additional details, a photo, and video links.

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  1. So, if you walk next to stopped light... by ScnGuy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    are you going faster than the speed of light? How does this jibe with relativity?

  2. Re:No Parking on the Dance Floor by spotlight2k3 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think that they went a little far when saying that Light was Dancing. More closer would be that they stored a 4 centimeter stream of light and then played it back later. Finally we are gonna have a way to have data storage crystals like in all the scifi movies.