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

  • From: Steve Brown
  • Date: Sun Aug 21 16:07:31 2005


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)" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
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 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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