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May 18, 2006
Light
It challenges everything you think you know. I love light as a metaphor. Is there anything more interesting? I know they've made light go slow as a bucycle and stopped it dead in it's tracks. I know they've done the Star Trek transporter thing with beams of light too. But look at this article about how scientists have found a way to make light travel backwards. To add weirdness to confusion, these backward travelling pulses move faster than lightspeed as well. Cool. Our kids will see an even more amazing world and think of the information we can store in ths light! Moore's Law lives on...
Stephen
Posted by stephen at May 18, 2006 12:28 PM
Comments
Did you take high school or college physics? Light appears to do these things, but it is stillobeying Einsteins theories. It is all about relativity. The question to ask is if information is not being transmitted, is the light actually moving faster thna the speed of light?
Very interesting article.
Posted by: Bill Drew at May 18, 2006 2:44 PM