Why Scientists Froze A Beam Of Light #Shorts

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[00:00:00]The beam of light was just frozen, completely [music] solid at room temperature for a full 60 seconds.

[00:00:05]Normally, light blasts through a vacuum at nearly 300 million [music] meters per second.

[00:00:10]If you try to block it, the photons crash into the barrier and vanish as heat. You can't just pause it. But researchers [music] at MIT figured out a way to trick physics.

[00:00:21]They fired a laser into a tiny crystal and hit it with a high-frequency sound wave.

[00:00:26]This acoustic shield forced the light into [music] a bizarre hybrid state, stripping away its velocity without destroying its data.

[00:00:34]>> [music] >> For one entire minute, the light hovered in suspended animation.

[00:00:39]When they turned off the sound wave, the laser resumed [music] its journey perfectly intact.

[00:00:45]This breakthrough creates a pause button for quantum data, unlocking a future of unhackable internet.

[00:00:51]The fastest [music] thing in space finally has a parking brake. Follow G Fun Facts for more.