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

[Hank Nussbacher <hank () efes iucc ac il>]

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
>
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