Light Stopper

[staranjela]

Very enjoyable thank you

[HarryP444]

stopping atoms? could this be the first step in time travel...hmmmmmm

[BionicGroin]

500 000 is a pretty paltry sum considering how impressive this is. An oil executive probably makes something like that in half a day's work.

[shitoutamyass]

Hmm...so would this make a lightsaber possible?!?

[danomicky]

The reason this is important is because if light can be stopped than it might have rest mass.

[ikoronduka]

itsnt the light pulse just blue shifted to a very high wavelength..rather than the speed just slowing down? i need to read their paper

[solidaritet2010]

Many Thanks!



[jewggernaught]

@Redsiix So it bounced off and continued in another direction... YAY FOR YOU.

[hwtpants]

@Redsiix You are fucking stupid.

[Bagpipe2009]

she speak danglish...

[blackjack39]

@Bagpipe2009 Makes my ears bleed. Im danish myself, but i hate it when my friends speak english!

[matsuoka23]

@SASNIGHTCRAWLER yeap I don´t know either,,,, but is a very interisting experiment!!!

[matsuoka23]

does the light realy slow down or it travels longer distances inside the (in this case) bose-einstein???

[mrjimmyos]

@matsuoka23 It travels the same distance from what I understand

[matsuoka23]

@mrjimmyos this is doubt that I have... my point is... the light speed is constant right??? so no aceleration...

so if there is no aceleration how it came back to normal speed after passing though the (in this case) bose-einstein??

[mrjimmyos]

@matsuoka23 The light speed isn't constant when it goes through the atoms :s

[matsuoka23]

@mrjimmyos in theory this is true,,, but how does light return to normal speed without acceleration??

[mrjimmyos]

@matsuoka23 Probably just its nature to, hehe

[matsuoka23]

@mrjimmyos ohh yea!!!

I was thinking... have you ever notice that virus look more like a nanotechnology than something natural??? perhaps Alien??

[mrjimmyos]

@matsuoka23 When I first saw a virus I think me and the rest of the class I was in were like what the heck is this? This is what it looks like? It's so weird

[matsuoka23]

@mrjimmyos yes man.. is so weird!!!! I have two theorys... 1º its kind of alien nano weapon that can sufer an evolution and destroy humanity and 2º it was left here from the future people who want the human kind sufer and evolution to be able to became adapted to some futuristic nano-virus/technology and became super-human

[mrjimmyos]

@matsuoka23 I vote nano weapon

[matsuoka23]

@mrjimmyos Yea!!! thanks this is my 1º option!!!

[matsuoka23]

@mrjimmyos I think we are becaming crazy...

[mrjimmyos]

@matsuoka23 Definitely. I will grab the tin foil

[matsuoka23]

good character for big bang theory

[Tangerinian]

Capitalism is a great helper of science, and I can't imagine why anyone would think otherwise.

[AlexBrasil123123]

interesting how all the scientific and mathematical breakthroughs are being done by foreigners from europe, asia, and africa.......no one with an American accent. America just doesn't CREATE and DISCOVER things anymore like they used to.......Americans can thank capitalism and a dumbed down, entertainment-obsessed citizenry for that.

[Darpinion]

@AlexBrasil123123 Its interesting that you are denying a ton of information about American scientists and what they're doing for the scientific community. There are tons of American scientists that are cutting edge theoretical physicists, biologists, archaeologists, and the like... You're just not looking if you think there aren't good scientists from the States. There have always been great scientists from Europe dude.

[wicmercfrik]

what if you were to make a sort of "light capacitor"? something that could stor light, and build it up to be released at a much higher strength? just thinking...

[ThGibert]

L'uomo ha riuscito a fermare la luce!

[10713412]

did Einstein really believe stopping light was impossible or is that BS?can some one quote him

[KnowledgeFair]

Interesting video showing the interaction between electromagnetic energy and it's reaction with matter. The equivelant of freezing an ocean wave instantly and thawing it out instantly.

[ghettohearts68]

this is a neat discovery. cause if you can slow light down and measure that and this will help us understand how to go faster then light

[BoiseBass]

Lightsaber tech? bahaha

[onthecuttingedge2005]

imagine if we could slow and or stop Gamma Rays.

[curiouswolves]

She did win the Nobel prize.

[WannaBeiDev]

@curiouswolves what? she was considered as a strong candidate, never won nobel prize

[Emamnuelguzman86]

What! she should get the novel price, or is that only for men?

[cheasea]

@Emamnuelguzman86 Really?

[Tr0llsNeverDie]

@Emamnuelguzman86 i thought she was a man.

[LilaDeGr8]

Just saw this... so basically your taking the heat of an atom, freezing salt atoms, and stopping the light with the cooled atoms.

Like trying to put out the fire of a fire with ice!

But this fire ain't going out, it's just slowing down! Dang, it sure took alot of machines to do that!

[kurtilein3]

fizzy: im not sure, but my answer would be no.

i think this only works for very specific wavelengths, and only in one direction. but im not sure. if i would be correct, your "bottle" would only store the light of one specific wavelength that it gets from one specific direction. so your "bottle" would "look" into one specific direction, and tell you how much light of one specific color it gets.

but thats enough to pump a load of digital data into it and get it back 1 second later...

[youlldietrying]

I just saw this on History Channel this evening. I had to look her up and this is her moment (thus far) in history (yet it happened in '01). This is totally a 'Star Trek' revelation but the real benefits will more quickly be known to Computing, storage and security thereof. Kurtilein: I'm not sure what your level of digestion is on this matter, but assuming it's not too advance check out "History" "The Universe" "Light Speed" for a bit more on it.

[R31LLY]

wow that explain alot of other mysterys for me, now let me go invent