Light Changed to Matter, Then Stopped and Moved

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http://www.photonics.com/content/news/2007/February/8/86331.aspx

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By converting light into matter and then back again, physicists have for the first time stopped a light pulse and then restarted it a small distance away. This "quantum mechanical magic trick" provides unprecedented control over light and could have applications in fiber-optic communication and quantum information processing

In quantum networks, information optically transmitted over the network is converted into matter, processed, and then converted back into light.

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This work could provide a missing link in the control of optical information," Hau said. "While the matter is traveling between the two Bose-Einstein condensates, we can trap it, potentially for minutes, and reshape it -- change it -- in whatever way we want. This novel form of quantum control could also have applications in the developing fields of quantum information processing and quantum cryptography."
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Imagine True encryption! Hackers will now have to grasp the Math & physics

like someone in this forum said before the amount of information coming in the years to follow will be like drinking from a firehose!
 
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