A team of scientists at Germany’s University of Darmstadt have broken a major — and bizarre — record, bringing light itself to a full stop inside a crystalline structure and keeping it stopped for a full minute. The groundbreaking research could have major implications for storing information in quantum memory.
In a minute, light moving at full speed in a vacuum could travel more than 11 million miles. The previous record for stopping light, set earlier this year, was 16 seconds. So how did researchers nearly quadruple that number? As you might expect, it involves some complicated physics.
via Geekosystem
