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11-01-2001, 04:50 PM
Gain-Assisted Supraluminal Propagation by Wang, et al.


These guys set up a column with cesium gas in it and shot a beam of light into it. when all the measurements had been taken and the data had been compiled. it theoretically appeared to have exited the tube before it actually entered.

nowhere in the article do they boast of time travel or anything like that, and they admitted to several principles which could have slightly skewed the data, but it was peer-reviewed and the experiment was conducted in a professional and scientifically credible manner.

More info here:

http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v406/n6793/full/406277a0_fs.html
sho.gun
11-01-2001, 06:36 PM
I wonder how that works...

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v406/n6793/images/406277az-002.gif


Aaah.. it all makes sense now... :idea:
OC
11-01-2001, 06:40 PM
"No sharp disturbance in the pulse (a real signal) could propagate faster than light, but the scheme offers an unusual noiseless amplification scheme for the leading edge of a pulse, both at the classical and at the single-photon level."

Hmm. Noiseless amplification. If that could be regularly controlled, or maybe harnessed for propulsion, wow...

-OC
Burzhui
11-01-2001, 07:59 PM
it's one of the theories for worm holes not really time travel
Burzhui
11-01-2001, 08:17 PM
See the theory with worm holes is that as you go in it you come out on the other side at the same time. or when you go in it you come out with some delay. and the third is when you go in it you come out before you even went in. and its for wormholes
coleslaw
11-01-2001, 08:21 PM
This experiment really has nothing to do with wormholes at all. It's basically saying that the introduction of a plasmic gas allows radiation to progagate through the medium faster than it would through a vacuum, which would be the speed of light.
Burzhui
11-01-2001, 08:29 PM
Originally posted by coleslaw
This experiment really has nothing to do with wormholes at all. It's basically saying that the introduction of a plasmic gas allows radiation to progagate through the medium faster than it would through a vacuum, which would be the speed of light.

i was just saying that it has nothing to do with time travel
eSDee
11-02-2001, 12:08 AM
Originally posted by Burzhui


i was just saying

No dude it doesn't have anything to do with time travel. Listen to coleslaw he's a smart mofo.
spigidygak
11-02-2001, 12:56 AM
Ah, ain't quantum physics fun?