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Dec 11, 2003 11:32

so, based on something i just read about how yahoo is inferior to google, i went to google and typed "spped of light in furlongs per decade" and hit enter ( Read more... )

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grimm December 11 2003, 10:08:18 UTC
You know that scientists can momentarily freeze light now, bringing us one step closer to having quantum computers? Fun stuff!

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nihilistanarch December 12 2003, 14:21:34 UTC
umm how???

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xaosgod December 12 2003, 20:38:18 UTC
i knowded dat.

i'm not quite sure how, but its true thwarg--google for it!

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nihilistanarch December 12 2003, 22:07:01 UTC
sorry im just trin to rap my mind around the idea of FREZZING as in turning liquid to solid (at least thats what it ment last time i checked) ya know light flows like water...

ahh what ever i dont get it

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grimm December 12 2003, 22:21:29 UTC
Firt they make a very cold squishy, then the light drinks it and gets brain freeze!

Physicists at Harvard University have announced that they have been able to freeze light for a split second before setting it once again in motion. This achievement could help in the development of more powerful computers.

Two years ago, scientists "stored" light pulses for a short amount of time by allowing atoms in a gas to take up the individual light particles, or photons. This latest work differs in that no energy was removed from the light.

Stephen Harris, from Stanford University, said that the ability to stop light, even for a few hundred-thousandths of a second, was an important scientific first. The research will be published in the science journal "Nature."

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xaosgod December 13 2003, 14:58:38 UTC
yeah, it was some funky stuff. . .

a thread in the rpgnet forums had people posting game ideas about it--one person posted an unknown armies idea that when they froze the photons that they had accidentally ripped a piece of god away from himself--starting in motion the whole deal as seen in the book of revelations. . .weird. . .

but the idea, and most of the rest of the thread was damned cool

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