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Re: Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the speed of
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (up@3.am)
Mon Aug 22 10:12:58 2005
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:12:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: up@3.am
To: Steve Brown <nanog@stellablue.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <055301c5a68c$b7b9b340$6401a8c0@sativa>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
No, they were actually over the speed of light for a "portion of the
signal":
"They were also able to create extreme conditions in which the light
signal travelled faster than 300 million meters a second. And even though
this seems to violate all sorts of cherished physical assumptions,
Einstein needn't move over relativity isn't called into question, because
only a portion of the signal is affected."
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Steve Brown wrote:
>
> Okay, guess I should have read the article first, given the title is "Light
> that travels faster than the speed of light"
>
> Steve
>
> >
> > 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
> >
>
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