So when the pulse of light is at the same frequency (wavelength) as the atomic resonance of the super cooled matter (the frequency of the atoms natural shimmy, which in a super cooled state act as a single, massive atom), the time (when measured as the amount of quantum state change as a result of the photon passing through the atomic medium) in which it traverses the atom is less than what it should be, indicating that the photon was not slowed in any way through it’s interaction with the atom(s).

…is that right? did I do an understanding?

This seems really neat. So like when you shine light through things like water or glass or air the energy of the photons actually kinda get absorbed by the molecules and transmitted by them resulting in a slowing down a tiny bit, usually. It seems like they may have found some combinations of photon wavelengths and atomic resonance frequency that results in speeding up a tiny bit instead of slowing down

On a related note three brown one blue has a neat video explaining what phase shifting is and kind of why it happens https://youtu.be/KTzGBJPuJwM

So If the atomic resonance is right it might be likened to the bow wave of a ship being seen before the ship appears?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03680

The actual content. No paywall.

I’m too high for this

So basically the first real recorded backwards time travel

Quantum physics makes my mind do loop-de-loops.