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Posted on 05/14/2013 7:36:35 AM PDT by null and void
“That means light is traveling infinitely fast. “This does not mean the energy velocity of light passing through this material goes to infinity, or faster than the speed of light through air,” Yang told us. “It’s only the phase velocity of light that reaches infinity.”
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Why would you want to make it faster. In my opinion, it already goes too darn fast as it is.
My old school.....back when it was UMR.
This has been done for years. Phase front (1/group delay) going faster than the speed of light does not violate General or Special Relativity, because it is just a statistical construct, not a real thing, going faster than light.
You know, light has had it good for too long. It gets all the good jobs, is preferred to anything else, and is privileged.
When you get right down to it, light isn’t so much faster, as it simply gets picked more often.
I say it’s time to level the playing field, give sound more attention and more of the jobs.
We should probably use sound at times when we know light is better, just to give sound a chance. In no time at all, we’ll find that sound does just as good a job and the standard of living for sound families will rise.
combine eggheads with grant money, mix well.
yields a bunch of jibba jabber with no practical use.
fail.
This is the hard part for a nonscientist.
OK, say I'm a photon. I'm moving at the speed of light. For me, clocks do not move. I go from A to B in zero time, at least zero photon time. That's pretty fast. Actually that's infinitely fast.
And what do I care about your stinkin' "phase velocity"? I'm a particle. I just don't have any mass. You can't hold that against me.
I been pondering this for awhile myself .. I keep trying to hop under the blanket and beat the light, not much luck so far, bungy cords, superball propulsion rods, nope, my head is already in a vacuum,, forget that route. How anybody gets around this multiverse of ours during rush hour in the south bay is beyond me. :-]
Go ahead.. Grease that lightnin’!
What is “phase velocity of light?”
Oh, you can't event decide if you are a wave or a particle. Besides, I bet you are white light. Don't think that wouldn't be held against you, you, you massless photonic phasist!
I say you're a wave, and I intend to measure your phase velocity. I'm not wrong.
No doubt you can measure my phase velocity. But remember I won't get there until all of me gets there. Some of me moves a little faster than the rest of me but some of me moves a little slower. It all averages out.
Then put it in the wrong neighborhood.
The scientists need to subjected to a “truth in packaging” law.
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