Lene quotes

Lene Hau is a Danish physicist renowned for her groundbreaking work in the field of quantum optics. Her most famous achievement is slowing down and even stopping light using ultracold atoms. She continues to inspire scientists around the world with her innovative research and contributions to physics. Here are 7 of her quotes:

Incidentally, think about the ramifications of storing data on light waves that can be stopped and started at the speed of light.

Lene

Of course, in all magic tricks there's a secret.

Lene

There's a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But sitting there late at night in the lab, and knowing light is going at bicycle speed, and that nobody in the history of mankind has ever been here before - that is mind-boggling. It's worth everything.

Lene

To get high data transfer rates in communicating information, you would love to use optical fibers. The problem is that light is extremely hard to manipulate. So we make a perfect copy of the information carried by the light. We transfer it to matter - the condensate.

Lene

To me, what makes physics physics is that experiment is intimately connected to theory. It's one whole.

Lene

Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?

Lene