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Light completely stopped for a record-breaking minute - physics-math - 25 July 2013 - New Scientist - http://www.newscientist.com/article...
"The fastest thing in the universe has come to a complete stop for a record-breaking minute. At full pelt, light would travel about 18 million kilometres in that time – that's more than 20 round trips to the moon. ¶ "One minute is extremely, extremely long," says Thomas Krauss at the University of St Andrews, UK. "This is indeed a major milestone." ¶ The feat could allow secure quantum communications to work over long distances." • #занимательная_физика - × × ×
“They also used the trap to store and then retrieve an image consisting of three stripes. "We showed you can imprint complex information on your light beam," says Heinze.” - × × ×