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Re: Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the speed of light?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Brown)
Sun Aug 21 16:06:30 2005
From: "Steve Brown" <nanog@stellablue.org>
To: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 13:05:58 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
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 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
> ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
>
>
