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    Light faster than the speed of light?

    Light that travels... faster than light!
    http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/epfd-ltt081905.php
    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.


    [A team of international scientists nobody heard of] were able not only to slow light down by a factor of three from its well – established speed c of 300 million meters per second in a vacuum, but they've also accomplished the considerable feat of speeding it up – making light go faster than the speed of light.

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    Kevin
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  • #2
    time travel in a tardis?
    Better to let one think you are a fool, than speak and prove it


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    • #3
      Black hole powered wormholes?

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      • #4
        Gwunkas in bunka kwunks!?!?
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        • #5
          Looks like they're using a seperate beam of light to generate phonons in the glass.

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