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Scientists make light travel backwards, very fast

by EdH May 13, 2006 2:25AM PDT

Physics stuff to make your head hurt...

LINK

I like this part:

Boyd, along with Rochester graduate students George M. Gehring and Aaron Schweinsberg, and undergraduates Christopher Barsi of Manhattan College and Natalie Kostinski of the University of Michigan, sent a burst of laser light through an optical fiber that had been laced with the element erbium. As the pulse exited the laser, it was split into two. One pulse went into the erbium fiber and the second traveled along undisturbed as a reference. The peak of the pulse emerged from the other end of the fiber before the peak entered the front of the fiber, and well ahead of the peak of the reference pulse.

FTL Star drives; Time machines anyone?

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I thought hell was hot
by WOODS-HICK May 13, 2006 2:52AM PDT
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Interesting, but I don't see how it relates...
by EdH May 13, 2006 4:42AM PDT

to my original post.

Two examples of man taking charge of natural forces, I suppose.

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when I read your post
by WOODS-HICK May 13, 2006 7:40AM PDT

it made me think of the apod link. Incredible discoveries, their magnitude and final use way beyond my kb.

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(NT) (NT) Does this mean faster Internet service in the future? :
by Dragon May 13, 2006 11:45AM PDT
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Still waiting for DSL to arrive out here.
by EdH May 13, 2006 11:47AM PDT

so, probably not.

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It took a little persuading, but I convinced my wife
by Dragon May 13, 2006 11:51AM PDT

LSD was a good thing. Happy

For awhile, we had a little program that let us know when a we had a call, but that still wasn't acceptable to me.

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(NT) (NT) Did you type LSD on purpose?
by EdH May 13, 2006 11:58AM PDT
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(NT) (NT) yep! That's what I call it. ;-)
by Dragon May 14, 2006 1:02PM PDT
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Okay. Just make sure you don't call your service provider...
by EdH May 14, 2006 1:08PM PDT

and tell them you want to discuss payment for your LSD.

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I've talked to them referring to the service
by Dragon May 14, 2006 1:42PM PDT

as my LSD service.

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The problem with this faster than light stuff is that it
by Ziks511 May 15, 2006 11:54PM PDT

cannot be made to carry data. The data gets scrambled along the way, so you can't use it to communicate. Theres some very high powered math that goes along with that explanation which I comprehend not at all.

Rob

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Maybe properties of spacetime
by Dragon May 16, 2006 10:58AM PDT

are different in ways that can only be explained with quantum physics?

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(NT) (NT) VERY interesting
by Evie May 13, 2006 12:01PM PDT
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A little deeper. . .
by Coryphaeus May 16, 2006 12:30PM PDT
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it might be fast
by WOODS-HICK May 16, 2006 12:51PM PDT
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