Frozen light? Not so fast

By the way, I got all of this information from the publication itself. A piece of advice for "reporters" - if you can't understand the paper well enough to put this kind of video together or you can't ask the researchers themselves, don't make a video about it. Especially if you're just reading what other reporters already wrote. #stem #science #physics #frozenlight #news #explained

[hazsan]

Thank you for explaining. Now explain what you explained

[whothefrickareyou]

Well that felt like having a guy from a Scifi future explain how they drink water

[adrian]

Thank you very much for your service. Unfortunatly in the age of clickbait headlines scientific research always become a source of misinformation. Your work is much appreciated

[eduardostapenko]

why no one is talking about the brilliant "not so fast" pun

[ashurean]

Bose Einstein condensates and other exotic forms of matter are such neat rabbitholes to go down. The math is well above my understanding, but the concepts are both fascinating and inspiring.

[adarshaengineering]

Thank you for reading word to word for a paper and not trying to explain anything much easily

[TheRaptor]

Oh shit this is as fresh as 2 hours. Indeed, I came to the right place, and though I must admit all the terms confused me a bit, I got my answer. Thank you!

[hoyaguru]

Thank you! I've been looking at video after video, and for some reason not one of them actually showed the "frozen light", now I know why.

[imtherobloxgamer]

thank you, for explaining this deeper

[Yon_Solo]

Just tell me if that glowing icicle exists

[matthewderden]

I’ve said this once and I’ll say it again. Light has no mass, and because of that no matter where light is or what medium it’s in it will always always always move at a constant speed of C absolutely no matter what. What they did is make the light resonate back and forth in the super solid. But at a quantum level the light is still bouncing around at C. When light or photons hit water they don’t slow down, they just come into contact with more electrons which gain energy and then release that energy as another photon. That process takes a small amount of time which is why light appears to travel slower in water and bend.

[carlostapia]

So the answer is in the first couple of sentences. They pass the energy of the light onto the quasi particles and those particles are the ones that froze for a billionth of a second. That sounds to me like they didn't freeze light.

[dantereinhardt]

Thank you for explaining. I didn't understand almost anything, but at least I got its not as sensational as that video made it seem, which is why I looked up about this frozen light thing, since at face value I already knew it was definitely a lie, or an oversimplification.

[olioli]

he explained it so good i should know and understand it but my monke brain cant understand what he just said

[tommy]

Thank you man. Finally someone who knows what he’s talking about!

[Oblivionthdead]

Can you be my engineering tutor when I go back to college? Please? 😂 I understood you even when you used a word I didnt know. You would be a perfect tutor with anyone who has severe unmedicated adhd. Keep me interested by saying it in a way I cant understand then wrap my head around the parts I didnt know. Perfect.

[SugarGlider]

I gotta tell you the truth, I only understood that they took multiple timed photos of fixed light.

[JrgenMonkerud-golg]

Yeah, light can't really form a supersolid in free space, that would be more like some sort of solid made out of rotating black holes or something like that. Since light or energy in the vacuum is really only non linear at super high energy gradients or super high energy densities.

[ShroomyMink]

Thank you so much for breaking this down

[vishalkote]

So it’s like discovering that we can do something for the first time but not really understand what we can do with it and how it can be applied.