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RE: Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the speed of light?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Sat Aug 20 14:29:43 2005
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 18:26:29 GMT
To: gtb@slac.stanford.edu
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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
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>
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