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RE: Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the speed of light?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Buhrmaster, Gary)
Sat Aug 20 14:04:04 2005
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 11:00:28 -0700
From: "Buhrmaster, Gary" <gtb@slac.stanford.edu>
To: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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).=20
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On=20
> 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=20
> speed of light?
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> 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. :-)
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> (Thanks to a post over at Slashdot) the Science Blog
> reports that:
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> [snip]
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> A team of researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique F=E9d=E9rale=20
> de Lausanne (EPFL) has successfully demonstrated, for the=20
> first time, that it is possible to control the speed of light=20
> - both slowing it down and speeding it up - in an optical=20
> fiber, using off-the-shelf instrumentation in normal=20
> environmental conditions. Their results, to be published in=20
> the August 22 issue of Applied Physics Letters, could have=20
> implications that range from optical computing to the=20
> fiber-optic telecommunications industry.
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> [snip]
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> http://www.scienceblog.com/light.html
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> - ferg
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> --
> "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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