In the laboratory, scientists have managed to slow light to just 17 metres per second.
Why it is true
Using a Bose-Einstein condensate made of ultra-cooled sodium atoms, researchers at Harvard drastically reduced the speed of light. Normally, light travels at about 300000 kilometres per second in a vacuum.
Source: Nature
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