Researchers now able to stop, restart light

[SlyPokerDog]

"Two years ago we slowed it down to 38 miles an hour; now we've been able to park it then bring it back up to full speed." Lene Hau isn't talking about a used motorbike, but about light – that ethereal, life-sustaining stuff that normally travels 93 million miles from the sun in about eight minutes.

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2001/01.24/01-stoplight.html

 

[BlazerCaravan]

That's the last piece of tech we needed before light sabers were plausible.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

That's the last piece of tech we needed before light sabers were plausible.

Don't forget the Midichlorians.

 

[maxiep]

Hey, I can do the same thing! I'm a genius!

 

[3RA1N1AC]

If you stop light, you would be able to walk around a room and it would look as though time had stopped

Neat, I want one

 

[Minstrel]

If you stop light, you would be able to walk around a room and it would look as though time had stopped

Neat, I want one

If you stop all light. I think they're probably a few hundred thousand millennia away from that, though.