Watch out for the alchemist who claims he can turn lead into gold.
The scientist thinks he can put a massive amount of data into a single photon. He must have a different definition of a photon, because I thought a photon was like a single binary digit...the most basic unit of light. He claims that a photon is a wave, not a single binary digit. So he is not storing lots of data in a single bit, but in a sequence of them.
This business of slowing down light has been attempted before. Slowing down a signal by 100 nanoseconds is a far cry from storing it permanently, or even semi-permanently.
Uncle Bob has informed us that a photon is a single wave of light energy, not a single pixel of light. Maybe light cannot be separated into pixels, so a single "burst" wave is as quantum as it gets. That being the case, and since the article does describe a photon as a wave, it makes the results of the experiment much more understandable.
I still don't understand how they think they are storing an image, but I wish them the best of luck. There is always room for a better idea.
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Watch out for the alchemist who claims he can turn lead into gold.
The scientist thinks he can put a massive amount of data into a single photon. He must have a different definition of a photon, because I thought a photon was like a single binary digit...the most basic unit of light. He claims that a photon is a wave, not a single binary digit. So he is not storing lots of data in a single bit, but in a sequence of them.
This business of slowing down light has been attempted before. Slowing down a signal by 100 nanoseconds is a far cry from storing it permanently, or even semi-permanently.
Uncle Bob has informed us that a photon is a single wave of light energy, not a single pixel of light. Maybe light cannot be separated into pixels, so a single "burst" wave is as quantum as it gets. That being the case, and since the article does describe a photon as a wave, it makes the results of the experiment much more understandable.
I still don't understand how they think they are storing an image, but I wish them the best of luck. There is always room for a better idea.
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