From: michael mcdermott (m@wroth.com)
Date: Sun Apr 25 1999 - 19:03:26 MDT
hmm, is light really slowed in this experiment, or is it just passed
through a medium which mearly causes light to take a path through the
medium so that it seems to be moving slower.
Gina Miller wrote:
>
> Scientists slow light to a crawl
>
> BOSTON - Scientists have managed to slow down light so much that if
> it were a car on a highway, it could get a ticket for not getting
> over to the right-hand lane. The speed of light is normally about
> 186,000 miles per second, or fast enough to go around the world seven
> times in the blink of eye. Scientists succeeded in slowing it down to
> 38 mph While slow-speed light now is just a laboratory plaything for
> top physicists, the Danish scientist who led the project envisions
> practical applications in communications technology and night-vision
> devices.
>
> Gina "Nanogirl" Miller
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