/dev/null Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2000/07/20/...ight000720.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meazza Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2000/07/20/...ight000720.html These guys called me for more info on my light and sound theory. Obviously they didn't reference me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eSJayDee Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 I seemed to recall that supposedly being done a few yrs ago. I noticed that the article you linked was last updated in 2000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justnzane Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 that is some crazy S***, but maybe some trekkie will be able to use this discovery to help us travel warp 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetbaboo Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 the university of rochester has done something similar as well http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=2544 In the past few years, scientists have found ways to make light go both faster and slower than its usual speed limit, but now researchers at the University of Rochester have published a paper today in Science on how they've gone one step further: pushing light into reverse. As if to defy common sense, the backward-moving pulse of light travels faster than light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oneonta Buffalo Fan Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2000/07/20/...ight000720.html Cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajzepp Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Nerds make the world go 'round....God bless 'em! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cåblelady Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 I've got duct tape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dib Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Everyone knows the speed of light, what is the speed of dark? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2000/07/20/...ight000720.html Old news, and not as spectacular a feat as it sounds. Physics has known for decades that certain quantum phenomena travel faster than light (instantenously, really, no matter the distance. Take an atom here on earth, link it through some quantum state to an atom around Alpha Centauri, change the quantum state here on earth...it changes the state around Alpha Centauri immediately.) The real trick here is setting up the experiment - it's theoretically trivial to get a beam of light to travel through a media instantaneously, but experimentally very difficult. What the researchers accomplished is no mean feat of engineering...but it's little more than a parlor trick, proving as it does something that's basically been known for 70 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Everyone knows the speed of light, what is the speed of dark? Goodness. She's one of your best ones yet. How come we never get dib avatars for BOTD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dib Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Goodness. She's one of your best ones yet. How come we never get dib avatars for BOTD? To use the vernacular "You ain't seen nothin yet" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Speed of Light broken? http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2000/07/20/...ight000720.html Speed of Light broken - and it's the LAW! I can't bear to look at the linky. If it's another broken law - it must be Bush's fault. Oh, the humanity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HopsGuy Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Old news, and not as spectacular a feat as it sounds. Physics has known for decades ... Yup. There's no limit on the speed of information. Just when we (and by "we" I mean humanity's best scientists) think we're onto something, we're nowhere. But we'll keep on looking (and refining the math). Think we'll have a Grand Unified Theory in our lifetime? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted March 7, 2007 Author Share Posted March 7, 2007 These guys called me for more info on my light and sound theory. Obviously they didn't reference me. Did you see my other post on the 9 laws of Physics that don't apply to Hollywood? Might want to look at #9 closely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mead107 Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 what if you could use light beams to spin something , like wind turbines . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 what if you could use light beams to spin something , like wind turbines . That would be great, as long as they didn't spoil Teddy's view of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helmet_hair Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Old news, and not as spectacular a feat as it sounds. Physics has known for decades that certain quantum phenomena travel faster than light (instantenously, really, no matter the distance. Take an atom here on earth, link it through some quantum state to an atom around Alpha Centauri, change the quantum state here on earth...it changes the state around Alpha Centauri immediately.) The real trick here is setting up the experiment - it's theoretically trivial to get a beam of light to travel through a media instantaneously, but experimentally very difficult. What the researchers accomplished is no mean feat of engineering...but it's little more than a parlor trick, proving as it does something that's basically been known for 70 years. Do you think it will ever be possible to push mass faster then light or even at it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothrop Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2000/07/20/...ight000720.html Somehow this violates God's law as set forth in the Bible. I am not sure how but I am sure it does. Sinners! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramius Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Do you think it will ever be possible to push mass faster then light or even at it? probably not, because the theory of relativity states that mass becomes infinitely large when the spped of light is approached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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