Not wanting to revive the Atlantis issue, but I read either a novel or an on-line document somewhere about a crystal that when exposed to sunlight, it "slows down" the light enough that it practically "stores" the light for a period of time even after exposure to sunlight.
Dino- @}
At 10:26 PM 3/14/98 -0800, you wrote:
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>> like shining a bright flashlight into the dark night sky. Tho once you shut
>> off the flashlight, the beam winks out. But the beam really has travelled
>> at 186,000 miles a second upwards into space and is still going.
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>Here is the crux of the problem... technically this idea is totally
>feasible, except for the one minor problem that makes it totally
>impossible: how do you shut the lid of the box fast enough to prevent the
>light from escaping. Answer? You can't. No shutter mechanism in the world
>can act fast enough. A shame, isn't it?
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