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Speed Of Light Broken With Off Shelf Components

Posted by Hemos on from the breaking-the-limits dept.

jukal writes "An interesting article at NewScientist.com: " Now physicists at Middle Tennessee State University have broken that speed limit over distances of nearly 120 metres, using off-the-shelf equipment costing just $500.", " it may be possible to use this reflection technique to boost electrical signal speeds in computers and telecommunications grids by more than 50 per cent. Electrons usually travel at about two-thirds of light speed in wires, slowed down as they bump into atoms. Hache says it may be possible to send usable electrical signals to near light speed. ""

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  1. Physics and Frauds by doublem · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wasn't there just an article on frauds in physics?

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  2. DMCA by athakur999 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Aren't they inviting a lawsuit from God by publishing this? The restrictions regarding the speed of light are there to protect God's IP. By sharing the knowledge of how to get around these restrictions allows anyone to create their own Universes, which clearly violates patent #000000000.

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  3. Deceptive title by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    What is Slashdot going to do next? Post an article titled "WIN FREE SEX"?

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  4. Re:Selling a bridge? by pthisis · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Of course, given recent history, the latest scam involving Florida is buying not swampland but elections. And it only costs you five justice's robes...

    Oh, come on, that's so old news. It's not even the most recent Florida election count mishap.

    Sumner

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  5. Times are still tough. by SHEENmaster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hell, I am on Mac OS X at the moment.

    All the glory of UNIX, right? Well, UNIX without X. UNIX without a path listing in the file browser. UNIX without a standard c++ compiler. UNIX without, well UNIX.

    Then again, it is UNIX with commercial software. A mixed blessing, but not so bad.

    Back in my day, UNIX(Linux) was pure. I had no commercial software, aside from netscape. Back in my day, we(I) had my wyse dumb terminal and didn't care that the rest of the world(literally) had their cga and vga and svga monitors and their fancy mice.

    I may only be 16, but I've used everything from the Timex Sinclair to the Altair to the VAX to, my favorite, unix. I run Linux and Mac OS X exclusively. This is my day, and unix is still going strong.

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