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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (105)	12/19/1998 6:17:00 PM
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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (105)	2/24/1999 10:22:00 AM
From: kinkblot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to 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! -------/--- 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.