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Site Pages Home What We Offer Courseware I: Document I: Consulting I: Database I: Database II: News I-Workings Portfolio Ispace t Project I: Contact Us DC PDFs dc.pdf dcgraph.pdf dcinter.pdf dc_acro.pdf dcweb.pdf dcdesigns.pdf Print PDFs NBS Bartizan Matrix Ads Client Sites CA Wire Mill BRT Dave's Cycle PV GVRI Macia Design BW C Labs Redding BY		Go to Beyond Real Time to read and participate in an ongoing discussion of the impact of tech and science on society. If nothing else, it makes one think about where man is going in the 21st century. Interesting Factoid: The blog's definitely finding an audience. Go to Process Visual to see DC's first pass in using Joomla to bulid a content management website. Go to Everything's Alive, DC's connect to education and the future. Check out the Wire Mill site to see where the performing arts are headed. DC Introduces Q-Docs - A database-driven DMS Quicktime/H264 is hot. High Def digital video has arrived. Go to Mishoos to see some really excellent software (Calendar/Text Editor, etc.). Mihai Bazon rocks. Check out Apple as they make their move to become the digital hub. Go to Pdfsolutions to see some of the best Acrobat tools available on the Net. Go to Creative Commons.org to see the right way to do Copyright. DC does Databases. Go to Database Interactive to see the Filemaker 9 Investment Banking system designed to enable financial types to work with Pershing data from the get go while escaping Excel Hell. Stopping Light, something long thought to be an impossibility, was recently accomplished by two independent Harvard research teams headed by Lene Hau and Ronald Walsworth. Depicted above is a QuickTime animation showing how the Walsworth team did it. (Update - They are now doing it in silicon.) The animation shows the following. Click here if you don't have the free QuickTime plug-in. Two lasers are fired into a container of specially treated Rubidium gas (an alkaline metallic element) maintained at room temperature. Because the lasers' frequencies are tuned slightly differently, two things happen to the gas. 1. The gas becomes transparent to light and 2, the "spin" of the Rubidium atoms is altered. When the blue laser is gradually turned off, the Rubidium atoms absorb the light of the "yellow" laser, thus slowing it down to a halt. (The actual light is deep red.) When the "blue" laser is turned back up, the Rubidium gas releases the light. Significance of experiments: Not only is the light stopped and restarted, the photons that make up the light and the information they contain can be manipulated while the light is stopped. End Game: These experiments pave the way to Quantum Computing, the technology that will change our lives forever. ©2000 Digital Constructs Inc., All Rights Reserved