Scientists at IBM have figured out a way to slow light down. We may have to re-learn that light does not always travel at 186,282,000 miles a second. Or, at least it does not do so when IBM wants to store it in a silicon chip on an experimental basis. Practical applications are a long way off, but if it proves practical in the manufacturing world, we'll have faster computers and faster web processing.
Incidentally, the head researcher on this project is Yurii Vlasov. Will tighter immigration standards result in discoveries of this magnitude being made other than in the US of A?
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Al -
No worries on immigration. IBM Research draws on scientists and engineers around the world. IBM has research centers in Yorktown and Hawthorne, NY; as well as Almaden and San Jose, California; and Haifa, Israel; Zurich, Switzerland; Tokyo, Japan; New Delhi, India and Beijing, China. Read more:
http://www.research.ibm.com/worldwide/
Will R.
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