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Physics

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Putting the Brakes on Light

Light travels 186,000 miles per second in a vacuum; in Lene Hau’s lab, it ambles at 38 miles an hour

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Phenomena, Comment & Notes

Today’s physics allow outrageous possibilities: faster-than-light travel across the galaxy, or even our learning to make new universes to specification

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