Here is an interesting Q&A sessions with Dr. Lene Vestergaard Hau, a tenured professor at Harvard who slowed down light.
=== From the Article === Question: IDEAS: So you foresee your work playing a role in computers that perform or calculate with light rather than electricity. Are there also theoretical implications to your work? HAU: By asking that, you are splitting, making a distinction between theory and experiment. To me, what makes physics physics is that experiment is intimately connected to theory. It's one whole. Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues. If that part is not there, it's mathematics. =================== ouch... That puts a ding in my interest for string theory :) "To the electron -- may it never be of any use to anybody." -- JJ. Thomson's favorite toast ;-) _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
