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In 1999, This woman slowed down the Speed of Light to 17 meters/seconds. Later she stopped the light completely & not this only, she could also manipulate the light & did something Einstein theorized was impossible.
In 1999 the Danish physicist Lene Hau managed to slow down the fastest thing we know: light.
Albert Einstein theorized that light cannot travel faster than 186,282 miles per second. No one has proved him wrong, but he never said that it couldn’t go slower.
Dr. Hau admitted that the famous genius would “probably be stunned” at the results of her experiments. Working at the Rowland Institute for Science, overlooking the Charles River and the gold dome of the state Capitol in Boston, she and her colleagues slowed light 20 million-fold in 1999, to an incredible 38 miles an hour.
They did it by passing a beam of light through a small cloud of atoms cooled to temperatures a billion times colder than those in the spaces between stars. The atom cloud was suspended magnetically in a chamber pumped down to a vacuum 100 trillion times lower than the pressure of air in the room where you are reading this.
In this thread, we are breaking some Physics Myth!