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Friday, July 26, 2013

Light Completely Stopped For One Minute

I can't exaggerate the importance of this breakthrough.

Researchers have stopped light for a record-breaking minute using lasers and magnets. I won't go into the methods here. If you want to learn more about this, please go to the article in New Science for a layman's view or to Physical Review Letters for the science.

Why is this so important? Two words: quantum computing.

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