[Monty22]

I wish there were pictures of what this 'stopped light' looked like.

Wouldn't it be invisible, not emitting any protons? Her descriptions of it sounds like it looks like an angel or something though. How is it possible to 'see' stopped light?

[AntiGuv]

How is it possible to 'see' stopped light?

I'm going out on a limb here, but would not other light waves still bounce off the 'stopped' light, or something like that?

[coloradan]

It wasn't stopped, it was just slowed. After it got out of the slowing medium, it resumed its previously scheduled velocity and continued on its way as you would have otherwise expected. Do you wonder what slowed light looks like? Light going through glass goes at only about 2/3 the speed of light in air, and light in air goes .9997 times as fast as light in a vacuum. Once it enters the fluid in your eye, which is how light really *looks* when you *see* it anyway, it's going about 3/4 the speed of light in a vacuum.