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Pastimes : IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE

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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (105)2/24/1999 10:22:00 AM
From: kinkblot  Read Replies (2) of 480
 
The Atom Cooling Group at the Rowland Institute.

Research reported in the 2/18/99 issue of the journal Nature describes how light was slowed to ~38 mph by shooting a laser through a Bose-Einstein condensate of sodium atoms, which worked like 'optical molasses'.

Maybe the Nature paper will arrive here someday:

rowland.org

FTL...pieceofcake!

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The Rowland Institute - founded in 1980 by Edwin H. Land:

the mission of the Institute is to conduct research on problems that are, to use Land's phrase, manifestly important and nearly impossible.
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