http://scottorchard.com Scott Orchard is a design & web development consultant Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:04:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.scottorchard.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Posts+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fscottorchard.com%2F2005%2F11%2F10%2Fibm-slows-light%2F&seed_title=IBM+Slows%C2%A0Light http://scottorchard.com/2005/11/10/ibm-slows-light/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2005 04:19:52 +0000 Scott http://www.scottorchard.com/?p=29 Continue reading →]]> “IBM Slows Light,” not your typical headline and not something I had thought was possible, I mean I know about refraction and how light travels at different speeds through certain substances, but I hadn’t give this subject much thought before. Though this has been done before, IBM is reportedly the first company to do this by using standard materials. This could be a huge breakthrough for future hardware, companies creating components that require far less energy to run than in computers today; further paving the way for optical based CPUs.

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