On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: I doubt they are exceeding the speed of light. Propogation delay inside fiber is about 2/3 the speed of light so perhaps they have succeeded to increase the speed to 3/4? :-)
-Hank > > Man, I knew I should've gotten in on the ground floor in > any effort to speed up light -- someone's going to be > rich beyond their wildest dreams. :-) > > (Thanks to a post over at Slashdot) the Science Blog > reports that: > > [snip] > > A team of researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne > (EPFL) has successfully demonstrated, for the first time, that it is possible > to control the speed of light ? both slowing it down and speeding it up ? in > an optical fiber, using off-the-shelf instrumentation in normal environmental > conditions. Their results, to be published in the August 22 issue of Applied > Physics Letters, could have implications that range from optical computing to > the fiber-optic telecommunications industry. > > [snip] > > http://www.scienceblog.com/light.html > > - ferg > > -- > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson > Engineering Architecture for the Internet > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
