Re: FTL goes Coax

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2002 - 21:58:18 MST


At 11:47 PM 1/25/02 EST, the Spudster wrote:

>I have never been sure what such claims really mean, however...

> http://www.physicsweb.org/article/news/6/1/13

Yes you do, you're just clinging on in desperate but misguided hope. Look,
it's dashed in front of your very eyes:

< Haché and Poirier emphasize that their experiment does not break any laws
of physics. Although the group velocity exceeds the speed of light - an
effect permitted by relativity - each component of the pulse travels slower
than light. It would be impossible to transmit information faster than
light because it would be encoded onto a single frequency component. >

Damien Broderick
[a horrible spoilsport]



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