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RE: Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the speed of light?
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 18:26:29 GMT
Well, I would imagine that the faster you can ship the bits, the faster anything can happen -- including BGP convergence and botnet attacks (too!). :-) Yeah, I realize that the possibility to actually "speed up" light via the optical transmission systems may be a long ways off (or simply impossible in practicality!), but I thought this was interesting. - ferg -- "Buhrmaster, Gary" <gtb () slac stanford edu> wrote: To make this operational, will this speed up BGP convergence? (note that there is a difference between group velocity and phase velocity. The posters of "300,000 Kilometers Per Second. It's Not Just a Good Idea, It's the Law!" are still valid).
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of Fergie (Paul Ferguson) Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 10:40 AM To: nanog () merit edu 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 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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- 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)
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- 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)