Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the speed of light?

["Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Man, I knew I should've gotten in on the ground floor in
 any effort to speed up light -- someone's going to be
rich beyond their wildest dreams. :-)

(Thanks to a post over at Slashdot) the Science Blog
reports that:

[snip]

A team of researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has successfully demonstrated, for the 
first time, that it is possible to control the speed of light – both slowing it down and speeding it up – in an optical 
fiber, using off-the-shelf instrumentation in normal environmental conditions. Their results, to be published in the 
August 22 issue of Applied Physics Letters, could have implications that range from optical computing to the 
fiber-optic telecommunications industry.

[snip]

http://www.scienceblog.com/light.html

- ferg

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