North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the speed of light?
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" <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Fergie (Paul Ferguson) > Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 10:40 AM > To: [email protected] > 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 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 > [email protected] or [email protected] > ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ > > |