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5.l Is it possible to slow light to almost zero miles/second? What machine would benefit from slowing light's

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1 answer : The speed of light is normally about 186,000 miles per second, or fast enough to go around the world seven times in the wink of eye. Scientists succeeded in slowing it down to 38 mph. They did this by shooting a laser through extremely cold sodium atoms, which worked like “optical molasses” to slow the light down.

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