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In what environment can light be completely stopped?

The maximum possible speed of particles is called the speed of light in vacuum and is a constant. Outside a vacuum, however, light can travel at speeds well below this constant. There is a special aggregate state of matter, the Bose-Einstein condensate, in which light slows down most strongly.

Experimentally, light has even been completely stopped in the Bose-Einstein condensate of rubidium by the formation of stationary, non-shifting solitons.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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