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Controlling the Speed of Light -- Up and Down
http://www.primidi.com/2005/08/20.html
Hi!, i read everywere that someone has "Slowed down" light, speeded it past the speed of light etc.
Correct me if i am wrong, but, isn't the speed of light a constant?
When the light is "slowed down" it actualy never slows down, it is just absorbed by the atoms and then emited, but light never slow down.
I am tied of this kind of articles, each time they are out, you have a lot of people totaly confused about light and special relativity
http://www.primidi.com/2005/08/20.html
Hi!, i read everywere that someone has "Slowed down" light, speeded it past the speed of light etc.
This is exactly what the EPFL team has demonstrated. Using their Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) method, the group was able to slow a light signal down by a factor of 3.6
On the other hand, they also did create "extreme conditions in which the light signal traveled faster than 300 million meters a second."
As they don't give any numbers for this upper limit, you have to trust them. Anyway, these results are important because they were achieved using off-the-shelf optical fibers, opening the way for future super fast all-optical routers
Correct me if i am wrong, but, isn't the speed of light a constant?
When the light is "slowed down" it actualy never slows down, it is just absorbed by the atoms and then emited, but light never slow down.
I am tied of this kind of articles, each time they are out, you have a lot of people totaly confused about light and special relativity
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