Tag: stopping light

  • Nation & World

    Prof. Lene Hau: Light matters

    In 2007, Professor Hau expanded upon her ’05 light-stopping breakthrough by transforming light into matter, and then back again.

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  • Nation & World

    Light and matter united

    Lene Hau has already shaken scientists’ beliefs about the nature of things. Albert Einstein and just about every other physicist insisted that light travels 186,000 miles a second in free space, and that it can’t be speeded-up or slowed down. But in 1998, Hau, for the first time in history, slowed light to 38 miles…

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Prof. Lene Hau: Stopping light cold

    In 2005, Professor Lene Hau did something that Einstein theorized was impossible. Hau stopped light cold using atoms and lasers in her Harvard lab.

    1 minute