IAm5toned
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designs lighting systems for a living :/
lol, but i love a good discussion.
that article is 11 years old, btw.....
and i will argue and say they were NOT slowing down light.
a bose-einstein condensate is matter packed so densly and at such low pressure (aprox 1bill mB than atmospheric pressure) that when a proton strikes the surface of the condensate, the atoms of the condensate are so supercooled and slowed, that the interval between photon impact and photon departure is drastically reduced. there not changing the speed of light, they are slowing the time frame between the initial impact of energy, and then release of energy in the forms high energy particle emmission, aka light/photons.
law of conservation of energy man.... u cant slow down a particle w/out a transformation... and even then its not slowing, your simply converting one particle into heat/energy, which in turn excites another atom to emit a particle... what there slowing is the time it takes for that reaction to occur, NOT the speed of a photon, which, as i stated before, a universal constant....
at least thats the way i interpret it![Smile :) :)](/styles/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
lol, but i love a good discussion.
that article is 11 years old, btw.....
and i will argue and say they were NOT slowing down light.
a bose-einstein condensate is matter packed so densly and at such low pressure (aprox 1bill mB than atmospheric pressure) that when a proton strikes the surface of the condensate, the atoms of the condensate are so supercooled and slowed, that the interval between photon impact and photon departure is drastically reduced. there not changing the speed of light, they are slowing the time frame between the initial impact of energy, and then release of energy in the forms high energy particle emmission, aka light/photons.
law of conservation of energy man.... u cant slow down a particle w/out a transformation... and even then its not slowing, your simply converting one particle into heat/energy, which in turn excites another atom to emit a particle... what there slowing is the time it takes for that reaction to occur, NOT the speed of a photon, which, as i stated before, a universal constant....
at least thats the way i interpret it
![Smile :) :)](/styles/smilies/icon_smile.gif)