Fact

Light has been slowed to the speed of a bicycle

And then stopped entirely, and then released again.

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Passing light through an ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate, researchers slowed a pulse to around 17 metres per second – slower than a cyclist. Later experiments halted light completely, storing the information in the atomic medium and reconstituting the pulse afterwards.

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