{"id":2017,"date":"2003-12-10T15:17:21","date_gmt":"2003-12-11T07:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/10\/from-299792458-ms-to-0\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T14:38:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T22:38:35","slug":"from-299792458-ms-to-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/10\/from-299792458-ms-to-0\/","title":{"rendered":"From 299,792,458 m\/s to 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12690,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/cnn.netscape.cnn.com\\\/news\\\/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-1501&amp;idq=\\\/ff\\\/story\\\/0001%2F20031210%2F134104765.htm&amp;sc=1501&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Fun with science &#8212; physicists have just managed to (very briefly) <a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.netscape.cnn.com\/news\/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-1501&amp;idq=\/ff\/story\/0001%2F20031210%2F134104765.htm&amp;sc=1501\" title=\"Physicists Briefly Freeze Pulse of Light\">stop light in its tracks<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The research differs from work published in 2001 that was hailed at the time as having brought light to standstill. In that work, light pulses were technically &#8220;stored&#8221; briefly when individual particles of light, or photons, were taken up by atoms in a gas.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Harvard University researchers have now topped that feat by truly holding light and its energy in its tracks &#8211; if only for a few hundred-thousandths of a second. &#8220;We have succeeded in holding a light pulse still without taking all the energy away from it,&#8221; said Mikhail D. Lukin, a Harvard physicist.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via Prairie)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun with science &#8212; physicists have just managed to (very briefly) stop light in its tracks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[514],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}