Wizardry at Harvard: Physicists move light

Ability to catch, store, move and release light could be used in future computers to process information encoded in light pulses.
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[Commander_Spock]

"Physicists move light" Whoooaaahhhh.

Beam Us All Aboard Scotty!

[Marcus Westrup]

Grow up

And with those words, you've shown you failed high school science.

[ledlight10]

Commercial use not likely for some time.

I just can't imagine atomic clouds, however clever they are in my home PC.<br /><br />And when you care to read the whole story of Lene Vestergaard Hau and her team, that is what they manipulated, aside from light.<br /><br />Let-there-B-Light<br /><a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.fun-led-light.com/light_progress.html" target="_newWindow">http://www.fun-led-light.com/light_progress.html</a><br /><a class="jive-link-external" href="http://fun-led-light.blogspot.com" target="_newWindow">http://fun-led-light.blogspot.com</a>