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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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...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
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.
"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.