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Scientists ‘freeze’ light for an entire minute

In what could prove to be a major breakthrough in quantum memory storage and information processing, German researchers have frozen the fastest thing in the universe: light. And they did so for a record-breaking one minute.

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  • thebizyo
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    Title is misleading.. from different source:

    They did not "freeze" light. It is not possible to "freeze" light. What they did was effectively create a material with an infinite IOR, absorbing the light and saving its information in the quantum states of the energized particles, and then rereleasing it again as light later. This is a feat of engineering, not physics; this is not scientifically ground-breaking; from a theoretical point of view, this is child's play. It is extremely cool and incredibly useful, but let's all just keep one thing stuck in our heads here. They did not stop light.

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