How to Stop Light in Its Tracks

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Scientists have created beams of light that are slower than a car! Not only that, but with the literal flick of a switch, they can freeze that beam of light in place! Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bd_Tmprd, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, Katie Marie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Interview with Irina Novikova, an optical physicist at the College of William & Mary http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/c.html https://www.seas.harvard.edu/haulab/publications/pdf/HauScientificAmerican2003.pdf https://physicsworld.com/a/slowed-light-breaks-record/ https://www.europhysicsnews.org/articles/epn/pdf/2004/02/epn04201.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20071219101336/http://news.zdnet.com/IBM+slows+light,+r

Published 2020-08-24 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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