Hank Nussbacher wrote:
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
I have seen experiments with antennas and Oscilloscopes, done by Hewlett and Packard in the 1920s I believe. They have shown the left wing of a dipole antenna knows things in advance that you do to the right wing. The little spike they photographed on their scope did prove it. I have seen a repetition of that experiment at Darmstadt University studying computerscience and having lessons in electricity. I am a hamradio operator. Those guyes are always curious. But sorry I did not comprehend what that experiment was all about. The experiment has shown that really the left wing of the dipole antenna "knows things before you do them". But for you to see them you have to get that information throug a coax cable. That information will reach you the moment you do it. Here we go :) On the other hand I have read again and again about those Lausanne people sending information through tunnels at speeds faster than light and they could proove it. Using normal fiber under normal environment conditions gives things an interesting twist. Now everybody can touch it. Regars, Peter and Karin Dambier
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:
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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.
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http://www.scienceblog.com/light.html
- ferg
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