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Physicists Store, Retrieve a "Squeezed Vacuum"

Posted by kdawson on from the there-is-no-cat dept.

An anonymous reader sends us to the site of Science Magazine for news that will interest those who have followed experiments to slow and stop light. Research groups in Canada and Japan have succeeded separately in storing a special kind of vacuum — a "squeezed vacuum" — in a puff of gas and then retrieving it a split second later. Such experiments might lead to advances in quantum encryption. At the very least they will help to illuminate the boundary between quantum and classical realms.

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  1. I always struggle to slow at the stop light by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 4, Funny

    but I thought it was my brakes.

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    Engineering is the art of compromise.
  2. I also have to squeeze my vacuum by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Too much junk in my hall closet.

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    Comment of the year
  3. Store a vacuum? by PFI_Optix · · Score: 4, Funny

    I keep mine in the hall closet. What's the big deal?

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    120 characters for a sig? That's bloody useless.
  4. Re:There is no bound(a)ry by gardyloo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your analogy is pretty baroque.