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> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 06:51:45 -0400
> From: Joachim Maier <jakemaier@adelphia.net>
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> Now I read just a couple of weeks ago that 2 scientific teams not only
> slowed light down, but completely stopped light, and after a while released
> it again.
If I remember correctly, (and it is likely I don't) the effect was a
change in the medium. And to add this to my point I was making about
the importance of detail, the issue here was that light travels at the
same speed in a vacuum. It changes speed in a different medium like
fiber-optics. I thought (and again, I may be wrong here) that the
experiment focused had the response of changing the medium itself
which caused the slow-down at stoppage of light... where reversing the
change cause the light to speed up again. Now, I may remember this
from reading an article that had a different viewpoint of the results
of the experiment, but again, I want to be careful because I'm unsure.
> They seemed to have changed a fact into a concept, and back into a fact. :)
Sounds like they changed the concept into a fact and back again. :-)
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Virtually,
Ned Wolpert <wolpert5@cox.net> 4e75
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