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17 Jul 23 23:20

Metal Brain

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17 Jul 23 23:20

Main achievements: Slowing and stopping a beam of light

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17 Jul 23 23:41

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sonhouse

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21 Jul 23 09:03

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@divegeester
What I wonder is if you can stop light dead in its track, why couldn't that work as an energy storage battery? If you can keep stuffing the box with frozen light, isn't that a concentration of energy? If you can control the unfreezing part why would that not be a battery?

Suzianne

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Isle of Misfit Toys

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21 Jul 23 11:26

@sonhouse said
@divegeester
What I wonder is if you can stop light dead in its track, why couldn't that work as an energy storage battery? If you can keep stuffing the box with frozen light, isn't that a concentration of energy? If you can control the unfreezing part why would that not be a battery?

More than just a battery, even though that's amazing in itself, this seems capable of applications in communications, high-speed computing and data storage.

Metal Brain

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21 Jul 23 19:35

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@sonhouse said
@divegeester
What I wonder is if you can stop light dead in its track, why couldn't that work as an energy storage battery? If you can keep stuffing the box with frozen light, isn't that a concentration of energy? If you can control the unfreezing part why would that not be a battery?

Because it would have to be at absolute zero. Same problem with superconductors.
EBC.