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Scientists Speed up Light
An anonymous reader writes "With off-the-shelf components, scientists have managed to speed up light beyond the 'universal' constant of c, or roughly 300 million meters/sec. This, and the previous ability to slow light down could shake up the telecom world, according to the story at Science Blog." Also, all those posters with 186,000 miles per second as a speed limit need to be amended. At least entropy is still around!
but can they achieve warp speed yet?
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Were they able to speed it up to ridiculous speed, or perhaps even plaid?
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Yes - of course - but does that have any bearing on the use of this technology in transmitting pornography?
My "wave" is propogating, therefore, at twice the speed of light..... you can make it appear that a light pulse travels faster than c, but like my "wave" it is only an appearance.
:-)
This is what happens when you let marketing into the physics department. As long as the customer believes it....
Table-ized A.I.
This isn't supposed to happen until 2208
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http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/ListsRefer
...or causality is violated and we have (dead virgins/future grandfathers) all over the place
"And so the Trekkies were executed in the mannor most befitting virgins - thrown into volcanoes" - Futurama
I never realized there might be a corollation!
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
Good news travels at the speed of sound. Bad news at the speed of light. Rumor even faster.
Actually bad news travels faster than light. Some alien civilation tried to build space ships powered by bad news. But they were unwelcome wherever they went. (the hitchhikers guide)
To allow faster space travel, scientisis increased the speed of light in 2208. Duh;)
As was evidenced by the new FTL(faster than light) optical data processing center at the core of Slashdot, This article was accidentally Posted INTO the PAST!!!!
/my head asplodes.
Thus, making the first post read a DUPE, and not this one. This is the original!
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Check journal for info on Anti-TextBook, an idea by me.
Rock on! Way to stick it to the man!
You really showed that son of a bitch a thing or two.
The only way we're ever going to fix this country is to randomly bring up a cliche point about the current president in the middle of scientiffic discussions.
Everyone say it together with me: "Phase velocity vs Group velocity" There are no photons in this experiment that are traveling faster than the speed of light.
That does seem like the most likley explanation, but if it is, why is this being hyped in the press? We have had experiments showing FTL phase velocity for decades, and they are useless for information transmission.
"Mod me down again......"
Go not unto/. for advice, for you will be told both yea and nay (but have nothing to do with the question)
Gee, too bad. Sort of spoils that whole parenthetical political statement, doesn't it?
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
The important question we all want to know is does this mean reduced ping times?
Sure. Just get together with your friends around the world and prearrange a ping to happen at exactly midnight GMT everywhere. You can get your ping to go infinitely fast if you do that (in terms of phase velocity) and CowboyNeal will write up a story about how you've shattered the speed of light and shaken up the telecom world.
Dark is faster than light... when you open a drawer, you see the light going in, but you don't see the dark escaping.
Dark is more dense than light. It settles to the bottom of large bodies of water, while light seems more boyant.
There are no light bulbs, just dark suckers. You notice how a burned out lightbulb can be a dark grey? It's full.
Candles were primative dark suckers.
This sig intentionally left justified.