http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090729074527.htm
*It's a kind of "battery" for storing photons, and a nifty ultracheap component
that would promise all kinds of odd applications. But, being a science fiction writer,
I immediately thought "slow glass." Bob Shaw's slow glass. This guy got an
amazing amount of fictional mileage out of a very simple conceit.
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=692
*You just fill a windowpane with bottle microresonators, set the stretch-capacity
for ten years of light-storage, and, yeah, slow glass. There's a slow glass story where
a character keeps glancing wistfully at a kitchen window where his wife is
inside the house cheerfully cooking. Except she's dead. Been dead for years.
*When did Shaw write that story? Before 1972, I think? And I still remember
it. Not too bad for ink stored on pulp paper.
