Scientists Freeze Pulse Of Light 343
Smitty825 writes "After slowing down light to slow speeds, scientists at Harvard University have been able to stop light for a very brief period of time without destroying its energy. The article explains how it is different from this previous light-stopping science story - this will hopefully help the development of quantum computers and ways to communicate over long distances without being eavesdropped on."
Who wants to stop light? (Score:5, Funny)
I can't wait for the future development... (Score:5, Funny)
Could bring a whole new dimesnion to the humble Tequila Sunrise huh?
Stopped light... (Score:5, Funny)
Q: What is the difference between stopped light and darkness?
A: You know where darkness is.
In Soviet Russia... (Score:-1, Funny)
Re:Who wants to stop light? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I can't wait for the future development... (Score:2, Funny)
thrust me, you dont want a block of sodium in your drink
Re:I can't wait for the future development... (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Who wants to stop light? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I can't wait for the future development... (Score:4, Funny)
Is that going to be your pickup line at said bar?
Serious! (Score:2, Funny)
Altogether now: *grrooaaan*
Re:Who wants to stop light? (Score:2, Funny)
Speaking of light and darkness... (Score:5, Funny)
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
Darn darn darn (Score:5, Funny)
Reminds me of another physics joke... (Score:5, Funny)
Heisenberg: "No, but I know exactly where I am!"
Phillip Morris? (Score:3, Funny)
God damn, subpoenaed is an ugly word.
Re:Man...Imagine the vaccuum (Score:3, Funny)
This is nothing new ! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Who wants to stop light? (Score:3, Funny)
Freezing Light BS (Score:1, Funny)
Come on guys do you honestly think we will believe that in this day and age??
Re:Ah, but... (Score:0, Funny)
Finally (Score:5, Funny)
Re:SF story with slow-light windowpanes? (Score:3, Funny)
A camera, tape and VCR might have offered him a more flexible long-term solution...
The light particle was never frozen (Score:5, Funny)
Let there be light, baby. (Score:5, Funny)
What's wrong with 'Does this smell like chloroform to you?'
As for the frozen light, I'm thinking this will herald a new line in novelty items of the type sold at Spencer Gifts, only to be shoved in a cupboard two days later and never seen again.
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Free energy! (Score:5, Funny)
And if we can hook him up to a dynamo and a generator, we've got free energy sorted. Truly, this is an age of wonders.
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Very useful! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Is brief really very long time for the Photon? (Score:0, Funny)
I sit here around 8 hours a day not moving at all...trust me, the clock does NOT move insanely fast.
No, no (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I can't wait for the future development... (Score:3, Funny)
Ice cube lights [yahoo.com]. Not quite the same thing, though.
Great.... (Score:1, Funny)
We haven't even reached the speed of light, and already they have a speed trap.
Re:Man...Imagine the vaccuum (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Very interesting... (Score:3, Funny)
Ship 1: meow meow meow meeeoww meeeoww meeeoww meow meow meow
Ship 2: meeeoww meow meeeoww meeeoww meow meow meow meow meeeoww meow meow meow meeeoww...
GTRacer
- woof
faster then light travel? (Score:1, Funny)
Nick: Thetribble (just applied and cant get my e-mail yet to get my password)
Re:Very interesting... (Score:3, Funny)
Ship 1: "I want chicken, I want liver"
Ship 2: "Meow Mix Meow Mix please deliver"
Re:Stopped light... (Score:5, Funny)
"I think it's moving us in the right direction," (Score:1, Funny)
Or as Douglas Adams put it... (Score:3, Funny)
The Foo people of Bar actually tried to use this fact, and built a spaceship entirely powered by bad news, but found that wherever they went they were so extremely unwelcome that there wasn't really any point in being there.