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...EINSTEIN'S TROUBLING BEHAVIOR...
...such obtuseness that when I overheard an adult comment that exercise makes children grow faster I spent an entire afternoon walking to and fro in a vain attempt to become eight sooner than scheduled. The extent of my folly eventually dawned on me, but years later I discovered that Einstein's special theory of relativity does predict that an observer moving quickly with respect to the surroundings is, in effect, travelling into the future. Of course for the effect to have been perceptible I would have had to stroll at a speed approaching that of light...
...became interested in slowing down light and Bose-Einstein condensates in the late 1980s, while a graduate student at the University of Aarhus in Denmark...
...process involves supercooling sodium until it becomes a "Bose-Einstein condensate," and then using quantum interference to slow the light as it passes through the condensate...
...Albert Einstein of popular culture," said Emily...