Quantum bit: Catch the light

"Physicists in Australia have slowed a speeding laser pulse and captured it in a crystal, a feat that could be instrumental in creating quantum computers."

This is the first step, well, maybe not the first, to building a quantum computer. The ability to stop light (or slow enough) is the beginning of memory for a quantum computer. Quantum computers have been talked about for years. Feynmann thought about them many years ago. Now, they are slowing coming along, bit by bit, or, should I say, Qubit by Qubit!!