"Time Telescope" Could Boost Fibre-Optic Communications

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 28, 2009 @08:49AM from the way-faster-than-88-mph dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A time lens can focus a chunk of time to a point, rather like a normal lens focuses light rays. Put two time lenses together and you can create what a Cornell University team calls a 'time domain telescope' which can magnify time. They sent a 2.5 nanosecond long light pulse, encoding 24 bits of information, into their time telescope. What came out on the other side was the same 24 bit pulse, but compressed into 92 picoseconds. Squashing more information into a light pulse could help to send more information via optical fibres."

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Wiggers by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-28 08:55 · Score: -1, Offtopic

So now MTV and BET can convince suburban white boys to act like niggers with even greater efficiency. Not the fine contributions to our culture that people who happen to be black have made, no, what sells is that fuck-you attitude, violence, abuse of women, and smoking crack. Nigger shit, coming to a youth near you. Hip-hip hooray!