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To: Zoltan! who wrote (37064)	6/4/2000 1:07:00 PM
From: The Phoenix	Respond to of 77400

This is amazing stuff!!! The implications are HUGE!!! OG

To: Zoltan! who wrote (37064)	6/4/2000 2:00:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

This weekend Wang said he could not give details but confirmed: "Our light pulses did indeed travel faster than the accepted speed of light. ............. This would breach one of the basic principles in physics - causality, which says that a cause must come before an effect........... "The most likely application for this is not in time travel but in speeding up the way signals move through computer circuits," he said. Holy Batman, maybe we'll be able to get stock prices before they happen! He believes, however, that this will not breach the principle of causality because the time taken to interpret the signal would fritter away all the savings. But we'll have to move fast on it!

To: Zoltan! who wrote (37064)	6/4/2000 4:16:00 PM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 77400

I don't understand. I thought E=MC^2 meant that it would take an infinite amount of mass converted to energy to reach the speed of light. Or maybe that equation doesn't apply because they are changing the behavior of light itself. I am flabergasted. There are just no limits to what man can think of and do.

To: Zoltan! who wrote (37064)	6/4/2000 5:31:00 PM
From: lawdog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

The results of this experiment have not been verified and even the scientific community's biggest dreamers admit that the findings will not allow data to travel faster than light, only closer to the speed of light.

To: Zoltan! who wrote (37064)	6/4/2000 9:57:00 PM
From: Helios	Respond to of 77400

"In effect, it is leaping forward in time..." Finally! A way to time the market.

To: Zoltan! who wrote (37064)	6/4/2000 11:55:00 PM
From: username	Respond to of 77400

Don't know if you have seen the Cal Tech thing...it's pretty interesting. broccoli.caltech.edu abcnews.go.com cco.caltech.edu

To: Zoltan! who wrote (37064)	6/9/2000 10:58:00 PM
From: Helios	Respond to of 77400

Bob Park of the American Physical society weighs in on the subject. aps.org 4. YAWN: PAPERS REPORT THAT THE SPEED OF LIGHT HAS BEEN BROKEN. Whoa, is this the old phase-velocity stuff that has confused generations of physics students? Recent experiments, cleverly contrived to give the appearance of superluminal transmission, have been hyped by, among others, the Sunday Times of London, which a year ago had RHIC at Brookhaven devouring the world (WN 23 Jul 99). Actually, you can see the same thing at the beach: the intersection of incoming and outgoing waves travels down the beach far faster than the wave velocity. Causality is preserved.