swestrup: (Thinking)
swestrup ([personal profile] swestrup) wrote2005-08-21 11:53 am

Lightspeed

According to this article, some scientists have found a way to make light go faster than light. This is pretty big news, but its not a practical method of, for example, speeding up the rate of computations in an optical computer. On the other hand, they have also found a purely optical method of slowing the speed of light down that can be used at all wavelengths in common optical materials under standard conditions. ie. in light fibres. This has ALL SORTS of possible applications!

[identity profile] gmarc.livejournal.com 2005-08-21 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow. It took a whole web page to give no details.

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