Like others said, it's the phase velocity that can be greater than the speed of light.
But they were talking about a negative speed of light.
Ever heard of metamaterials? You can see such phenomena in those artificially designed metamaterials.
If booth the permittivity and permeability of the material are negative, the refractive index an thus speed of light is also negative.
Light exits the material before it has even entered it.
Victor Veselago thought of that long ago and John Pendry was the first to create such a material.
My professor does this kind of crazy stuff all the time:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/312 /5775/892
I've seen it compromised.
It was some time ago, when the Unicode-Exploit was around. You could see that page changing nearly every second when the scriptkiddies were fighting about the server.
1 month after they had an update for that bug windowsupdate.microsoft.com wasn't updated. How ironically is that?
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http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0608115
Like others said, it's the phase velocity that can be greater than the speed of light. But they were talking about a negative speed of light. Ever heard of metamaterials? You can see such phenomena in those artificially designed metamaterials. If booth the permittivity and permeability of the material are negative, the refractive index an thus speed of light is also negative. Light exits the material before it has even entered it. Victor Veselago thought of that long ago and John Pendry was the first to create such a material. My professor does this kind of crazy stuff all the time: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/312 /5775/892
I've seen it compromised. It was some time ago, when the Unicode-Exploit was around. You could see that page changing nearly every second when the scriptkiddies were fighting about the server. 1 month after they had an update for that bug windowsupdate.microsoft.com wasn't updated. How ironically is that?
If you tranlate it literally: Gutcityium
Hey, that's my idea. You violated my patent 'Flying to Mars to escape stupid earth politics' ;)
Use MozEx to tell Mozilla which program he should use for mailto:, ftp:, news: or telnet: links. -> http://mozex.mozdev.org/
thats giving me an idea.;) make user-agent: Internet Explorer even more slower than it is right now.