Wizardry at Harvard: Physicists Move Light

It’s like three-card monte. Now you see it. Now you don’t. Then you see it — over there.

In a quantum mechanical sleight of hand, Harvard physicists have shown that they can not only bring a pulse of light, the fleetest of nature’s particles, to a complete halt, but also resuscitate the light at a different location and let it continue on its way.

By KENNETH CHANG

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/08/science/08quantum.html?_r=1&oref=slogin