Wednesday, May 24, 2006

backward-moving light faster than light?

"It's weird stuff," says Boyd. "We sent a pulse through an optical fiber, and before its peak even entered the fiber, it was exiting the other end. Through experiments we were able to see that the pulse inside the fiber was actually moving backward, linking the input and output pulses."

At 24.5.06, Blogger onespring said...

Holy cow. That guy is going down in history... there will be a use for that, who knows with what. Space travel, time travel... something.

 

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