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Thursday, May 11, 2006

Physics


Light's Most Exotic Trick Yet: So Fast it Goes ... Backwards? from PhysOrg.com

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. Confused? You're not alone.
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Robert Boyd, professor of optics
"Muh, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

3 comments:

Justin Fox said...

"In the past few years, scientists have found ways to make light go both faster...than its usual speed limit..."

They have??? There goes the last constant in my life.

"...the backward-moving pulse of light travels faster than light."

I'll read the article, but this doesn't even BEGIN to make sense. UNLESS it leads to Darkseid-style eyebeams that can travel around corners. Then it will make sense.

Marcos Perez said...

they've also found ways to make it go slower!
franky, i think this guy only got into physics to make a working lightsaber.

Justin Fox said...

He looks like the Dark Lord of the Lisp.

That's nerd lisp.