Harvard Physicists Make Light Dance

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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Re:relativity as light is just surfing the expandi

[pclminion]

This is about the dumbest "theory" I've ever heard. The fourth dimension is "expanding?" As in, from one moment in time to another, it's getting bigger? Wait a second, did I just say "moment in TIME?" So you're defining time in terms of an expansion over TIME? You are stupid.