> I don't know the physics behind it, but people who have better insight than
> I do tell me "it's hard" to run longer hops (if one wants any kind of high
> bitrate).
The buzzword is dispersion. The speed of the photon varies slightly with
color. All the photons in a pulse are not the same
>
>> What I actually wanted to posit in relation to that is that one could
>> get sooner a c-cabable backbone sibling by marrying two ideas: the
>> airborne concept ongoing as outlined plus what NASA is planning to
>> bring about for the space backbone, e.g [1][2]. It's laser based
>> instead of d
