"Her team later managed to stop a light pulse completely, store its information, and restart it. They even demonstrated that light could be converted into a matter-based form, manipulated, and turned back into light. [w/GROK summary]

X.com ^ | September 17, 2026 | AwakenedOutlaw⚒️ @AwakenedOutlaw

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"Her team later managed to stop a light pulse completely, store its information, and restart it. They even demonstrated that light could be converted into a matter-based form, manipulated, and turned back into light.

It sounds like science fiction—but these experiments were real. They opened new possibilities for quantum information processing, optical communication, and advanced computing."

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🚨 SHE SLOWED LIGHT TO JUST 38 MPH!

Light normally races through empty space at about 186,282 miles per second. But Danish physicist Lene Vestergaard Hau found a way to make it move at roughly 38 miles per hour—about the speed of a bicycle.

The secret was an incredibly cold cloud of atoms called a Bose-Einstein condensate. Using lasers and temperatures extremely close to absolute zero, Hau’s team slowed a light pulse by about 20 million times.
But that was only the beginning.

Her team later managed to stop a light pulse completely, store its information, and restart it. They even demonstrated that light could be converted into a matter-based form, manipulated, and turned back into light.

It sounds like science fiction—but these experiments were real. They opened new possibilities for quantum information processing, optical communication, and advanced computing.
Sometimes, the fastest thing in the universe can be made to slow down… and even stop.

Source:
Hau, L. V., Harris, S. E., Dutton, Z., & Behroozi, C. H. (1999). Light speed reduction to 17 metres per second in an ultracold atomic gas. Nature, 397, 594–598.

September 17, 2026

 

GROK analysis of post:

 

• AwakenedOutlaw highlights a 1999 Nature experiment by Lene Vestergaard Hau where light pulses were slowed to 38 mph and fully stopped in a sodium Bose-Einstein condensate near absolute zero using electromagnetically induced transparency.
• The post focuses on the key achievement of storing a light pulse's amplitude and phase as coherent atomic excitations in matter form, then regenerating the identical pulse upon laser reactivation.
• This work demonstrated light-to-matter conversion with applications in quantum memory, optical computing, and information processing, as confirmed by peer-reviewed research from Hau's Harvard team.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 1999; dollypartoneatskids; inaccuratesummary; light; lunaticposter; oldnews; physics

[xp38]

Absolute 0? That’s cold.

[Fai Mao]

If this istrue then time as we experience it is fungable, if it exists at all.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Gee whiz! What's your next trick, Mister Wizard!?

[Red Badger]

Let there be light.....................

[nesnah]

Absolute 0? That’s cold.

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It absolutely is.

[Lockbox]

What does this due to distance in space measured in light speed? Light hits cold area, slows down. Then using light speed someone is off on distance…… excuse me “their here!”

[PGalt]

Yes, we be chillin’ with a Bud Light. Interesting ‘note. Thanks for posting.

[mikey_hates_everything]

"Source: Hau, L. V., Harris, S. E., Dutton, Z., & Behroozi, C. H. (1999). Light speed reduction to 17 metres per second in an ultracold atomic gas. Nature, 397, 594–598."

27 years ago? Did she slow time to get light to slow down?

[Blurb2350]

Hmmm . . .

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

If this is true, then time as we experience it is fungable, if it exists at all.

The Chamber Brothers

Time Has Come Today

Full eleven minute version

Time Has Come Today

[rktman]

Do it again !

[dayglored]

Okay, great experiment.

It was 27 years ago.

Has this suddenly become news now for some reason? If so, that would be important for the article to highlight.

But I suspect the article author happened to stumble on it and thought it was cool science history. Which is fine too!

[Larry Lucido]

And the children on Melrose strut their stuff
Is absolute zero cold enough?
And out in the valley, warm and clean
The little ones sit by their TV screen
No thoughts to think, no tears to cry
All sucked dry, down to the very last breath

[TheDon]

Didn’t Han Solo’s kid do this?

[MoreMAGA]

How ‘bout we just start with fixing these potholes

[ClearCase_guy]

If this istrue then time as we experience it is fungable, if it exists at all.

In the past week or so, I've been seeing a great many YouTube videos about "time anomalies" and "Time machines that may have worked" and "things we don't understand about time".

Almost feels like a psysop where someone is preparing the ground to make a big announcement about Time. But on the other hand, it's a bit like all the UFO talk we had about a year ago -- it became a huge topic and people thought that the "truth" about aliens would be revealed. But nothing happened at all.

[alancarp]

"SHE SLOWED LIGHT TO JUST 38 MPH!"

She sent it through the Senate.

[lefty-lie-spy]

No kidding. I remember this news from 1999. And just look at all the amazing technology that is directly related to this breakthrough from 27 years ago. Not!

Some people post the most stupid junk here.

[bunkerhill7]

If her laboratory had been next to a school she coulda slowed it down to 25 mph.