“…In the limit t R << 1/Γ, the dynamic response should become distinctly bimodal, exhibiting a driven reorientation in time t R to a non-equilibrium state of internal molecular distortion, which would relax on the much longer time scale 1/Γ. The absence of such effects in our data thus implies its absence in slower experiments, and, indeed, no evidence for internal relaxation is found in several slower experiments [2,20,21]. However, our data appear to be fundamentally inconsistent with earlier observations on 5CB and related molecules at much longer time scales, in which such relaxation is found [7,8,13,14].…”