That stuff about the universal constant? Never mind.
This is freakin’ me out, man: #
Science Blog—Light that travels faster than light:
A team of researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has successfully demonstrated, for the first time, that it is possible to control the speed of light – both slowing it down and speeding it up – in an optical fiber, using off-the-shelf instrumentation in normal environmental conditions. Their results, to be published in the August 22 issue of Applied Physics Letters, could have implications that range from optical computing to the fiber-optic telecommunications industry.
I guess I knew that the speed of light could slow down – say when it encounters water – but I had no idea you could slow it a stop. And it just goes against everything I know about physics (which, admittedly, ain’t much) to find out that you can speed light up! Jinkies! So nothing moves faster than the speed of light? Apparently, light does. #
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