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

["Steve Brown" <nanog () stellablue org>]

Perhaps they are referring to being able to vary the speed while it is below 
the speed of light. That is, slowing it down to 1/10th the speed of light, 
and then speeding it up to 1/5th the speed of light.

Steve Brown

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>
To: <nanog () merit edu>
Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 10:40 AM
Subject: Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the speed of light?


> 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
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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