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Re: Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the speed of
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Sat Aug 20 14:28:00 2005
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 21:27:30 +0300 (IDT)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
To: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050820.104035.7340.71433@webmail12.lax.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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=E9d=E9rale de Lausan=
ne (EPFL) has successfully demonstrated, for the first time, that it is pos=
sible to control the speed of light =96 both slowing it down and speeding i=
t up =96 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 o=
ptical 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/
