Light is the fastest thing in the universe (as far as we know) and - TopicsExpress



          

Light is the fastest thing in the universe (as far as we know) and can travel about 186,282 miles per second, why is why a group of physicists are pretty darn proud of the fact they managed to stop it in its tracks. George Heinze and a team at the University of Darmstadt in Germany fired a series of lasers into a crystal. By halting certain beams and creating a magnetic field, the team managed to trap light inside it for a whole minute, which is pretty impressive considering it could make more than 20 round trips to the moon in that time. The feat could lead to learning to communicate over really, really long distances, researchers say.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 13:09:14 +0000

Trending Topics




© 2015