From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue May 30 2000 - 20:55:42 MDT
At 10:55 PM 30/05/00 -0400, Ross wrote:
>>
>http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/053000sci-physics-light.html
>>
>> This is not accessible to anyone outside the States
>> So what's the story about?
>They got microwaves to fly faster than c. Purportedly the microwaves arrive
>prior to when they are sent. The gist was that they supposedly could not
affect
>the prior time.
But 'gene had already posted:
>Since superluminal information transfer is equivalent to time travel
>(and hence paradoxes etc.), don't expect true ansible real soon.
Ack. Obviously. Which is what makes it so toothgrittingly interesting. So
which is it?
Anyone care to repost the nyt article?
Damien
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