Scientists Freeze Pulse of Light, for An

AP via Excite News ^ | Dec 10, 1:02 PM (ET) | RICK CALLAHAN

[BiffWondercat]

I did a quick read, I get the gist of it now.
Someone needs to ping me when we break c

[boris]

Stupid Physicist Tricks.

[PatrickHenry]

P L A C E M A R K E R

[AdmSmith]

Here is a good description on what is going on with the polaritons http://www.physicscentral.com/action/action-03-04-print.html

[Anthem]

I was scanning for something like your comment. My question is: Does this mean that light speed is not constant? If we can stop it, perhaps one day we will be able to detect its acceleration/deceleration. Hmmmm... at any rate it seems to be a challenge to Special Relativity at least to my simple mind.

[BiffWondercat]

I just read that the speed of light in water is typically .75c Chill it down enough and you end up with a Bose-Einstein Condensate - strange stuff. Hit O Kelvin and you can make everything stop (as far as I know anyway)

There are some career scientists here, so they can usually
get it straighted out. (Like RWP and RA among many others!)