Light Stopper

A short video about an experiment by Lene Hau regarding the stopping of light. Date- Sept 2001. Source- http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/02.08/99-hau.html More info- http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/20

'The ability to stop light in its tracks by passing it through a cloud of ultracold atoms could lead to new techniques for optical storage.'

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• light
• lene
• Hau
• particle
• physics
• photon
• bose
• einstein
• condensate
• e=mc2

[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

[blackjack39]

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

[solidaritet2010]

Many Thanks!



[hwtpants]

@Redsiix You are fucking stupid.

[jewggernaught]

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