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Sources:
Interview with Irina Novikova, an optical physicist at the College of William & Mary
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/c.html
https://www.seas.harvard.edu/haulab/publications/pdf/HauScientificAmerican2003.pdf
https://physicsworld.com/a/slowed-light-breaks-record/
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https://gizmodo.com/how-quantum-memory-could-change-computing-1829150822
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5562294/
