<quote>Einstein and just about every other physicist insisted that light travels 186,000 miles a second in free space, and that it can't be speeded-up or slowed down. But in 1998, Hau, for the first time in history, slowed light to 38 miles an hour, about the speed of rush-hour traffic.
<quote><p>I wouldn't have been surprised if a newspaper journalist used dramatization that indicated as if Einstein is proven wrong. I didn't expect that kind of dramatization when reporting scientific matters on news.harvard.<p>Of course, Einstein is still right. All these experiments slow down the speed of light when it's traveling in special matter at special temperatures. Constant speed of light in free space is a necessary condition for Theory of Relativity be correct. If that condition is found to be incorrect, our current understanding of the universe completely goes for a toss;