Question

Is it possible to slow light to almost zero miles/second? What machine would benefit from slowing light's

speed?

Answer 1

light, which normally travels the 240,000 miles from the Moon to Earth in less than two seconds, has been slowed to the speed of a minivan in rush-hour traffic — 38 miles an hour.

An entirely new state of matter, first observed four years ago, has made this possible. When atoms become packed super-closely together at super-low temperatures and super-high vacuum, they lose their identity as individual particles and act like a single super-

atom with characteristics similar to a laser.

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