Beams of light are usually speeding along at around 186 thousand miles per second, but for one minute, researchers in Germany brought some to a screeching halt. Using a crystal frozen to temperatures below 450 degrees Fahrenheit, a researcher team managed to hold light in place for a full minute — marking a drastic increase from the previous record of just 16 seconds. The technology will can eventually be applied to quantum computing as a way for retrieving and reading data, but it'll have to work on a much smaller scale and for much longer periods of time before that can happen.
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/26/4559762/darmstadt-researchers-stop-light-one-minute-quantum-computing
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