How Scientists Stopped Light
SourceFed's Lee Newton stops by DNews to talk about an amazing scientific achievement. Scientists have managed to not only slow down light photons, but stop and hold them in place for a full...
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Anthony: Scientists have stopped light and trapped it in a crystal for a full minute. Show offs. Anthony: Anthony here for Dnews and look! I've set out some candy, and I trapped a Sourcefed! Hello lady Sourcefed. Lee: I'm Lee Newton, or just Lee. Anthony: Lady Sourcefed everybody! Lee: Anyway, light thinks it's pretty impressive. It gets to be a particle and wave at the same time. And it travels at the speed of around 300,000 meters/second. Which means it can get to the moon and back 20 times in a single minute. Until we trap it in a crystal for that minute, Zod style, who's impressive now, light? Anthony: A German team from the University of Darmstadt, stopped particles of light for a full minute using crystals and lasers, which is the ...
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Anthony: Scientists have stopped light and trapped it in a crystal for a full minute. Show offs. Anthony: Anthony here for Dnews and look! I've set out some candy, and I trapped a Sourcefed! Hello lady Sourcefed. Lee: I'm Lee Newton, or just Lee. Anthony: Lady Sourcefed everybody! Lee: Anyway, light thinks it's pretty impressive. It gets to be a particle and wave at the same time. And it travels at the speed of around 300,000 meters/second. Which means it can get to the moon and back 20 times in a single minute. Until we trap it in a crystal for that minute, Zod style, who's impressive now, light? Anthony: A German team from the University of Darmstadt, stopped particles of light for a full minute using crystals and lasers, which is the ...
