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Bob Shaw's short story "Light of other days" (Analog, 1966), was the first to introduce slow glass. There have sinse been other story published using the concept.
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"Light of Other Days" by Bob Shaw is a Science Fiction book that introduces the concept of Slow Glass, where light takes years to pass through the material. This allows people to view events from the past in real-time.
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The only place I've ever seen the term used is in a science fiction story called "Light of Other Days" (and apparently some other works by the same author), in which "slow glass" is used to refer to a glass-like material in which the speed of light is so slow that it takes months or years to travel through a reasonably-sized piece.
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