Yeah, that's what my link was about. Light has been slowed extremely by a new method associated with the Bose Einstein Condensate - the first way they did it.Yes Hartey, Photons can be absorbed by an atom for example and then re-emitted out again at luminal velocity and this happens so quickly it appears to the observer that their luminal velocity has never altered..
What iam saying is that scientists have come up with that idea of slowing down a photon without it going back to luminal velocity as in my previous sentence..It appeared in the New Scientist Magazine a while back and as your a better researcher than iam, iam sure you will find that article somewhere on the internet
From that link.The lasers allowed incoming photons to combine with atoms to form a hybrid particle known as a polariton. Because polaritons get mass from the atoms, they move slower than c.