To make this operational, will this speed up BGP convergence? (note that there is a difference between group velocity and phase velocity. The posters of "300,000 Kilometers Per Second. It's Not Just a Good Idea, It's the Law!" are still valid).
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Fergie (Paul Ferguson) > Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 10:40 AM > To: nanog@merit.edu > Subject: Semi-on-topic: Light that travels faster than the > speed of light? > > > 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 > > -- > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson > Engineering Architecture for the Internet > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ > >