Man, I knew I should've gotten in on the ground floor in
 any effort to speed up light -- someone's going to be
rich beyond their wildest dreams. :-)

(Thanks to a post over at Slashdot) the Science Blog
reports that:

[snip]

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.

[snip]

http://www.scienceblog.com/light.html

- ferg

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