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Re: Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the speed of light?
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank () efes iucc ac il>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 21:27:30 +0300 (IDT)
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: I doubt they are exceeding the speed of light. Propogation delay inside fiber is about 2/3 the speed of light so perhaps they have succeeded to increase the speed to 3/4? :-) -Hank
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 F?d?rale 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 -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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- Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the speed of light? Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Aug 20)
- Re: Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the speed of light? Hank Nussbacher (Aug 20)
- Re: Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the speed of light? Peter Dambier (Aug 21)
- Re: Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the speed of light? Steve Brown (Aug 21)
- Re: Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the speed of light? Steve Brown (Aug 21)
- Re: Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the speed of light? Peter Dambier (Aug 21)
- Re: Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the speed of light? Steve Meuse (Aug 22)
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- Re: Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the speed of light? Jay R. Ashworth (Aug 26)
- Re: Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the speed of light? Hank Nussbacher (Aug 20)
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- RE: Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the speed of light? Buhrmaster, Gary (Aug 20)
- RE: Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the speed of light? Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Aug 20)