Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:15:33 +1100 (AEDT)
From: Lev Lafayette <lev-AT-ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Slowing the Speed of Light


On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Catharina Nes wrote:

Catharina,

Yes? What is it?

Are the question marks analogous to a STL query?

Lev


> Lev,
> 
> ???????????????????
> 
> catharina
> 
> >OK; it was a handy, fortuitous, loose-in-the-news, analogy for the
> >perceived 'slow seduction' of my media project. The entire article is found
> >at the URL below.
> >
> >/:b
> >
> >
> >
> >>A couple of things missing from this article; like "how" and "why?"
> >>
> >>
> >>Usually one slows down the speed of light with a dense, albeit transluscent
> >>object. One could use gravity, if a lot of it.
> >>
> >>Brad, could you tell us what this is all about? Or is it an example of
> >>a combination "art-science" using aesthetic justification (<<l'art pour
> >>l'art>>)
> >>
> >>
> >>Lev
> >>
> >>>
> >>> 	February 18, 1999
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 	In a Major Breakthrough, Danish Physicist Slows the Speed of Light
> >>>
> >>> 	By MALCOLM W. BROWNE
> >>>
> >>> 	When light travels through empty space, it zips along at a
> >>> 	speed of 186,171 miles a second -- the highest speed anything
> >>> 	can attain, even in principle. A moonbeam takes only a little
> >>> 	over one second to reach Earth.
> >>>
> >>> 	But a Danish physicist and her team of collaborators have found
> >>> 	a way to slow light down to about 38 miles an hour, a speed
> >>> 	exceeded by a strong bicyclist.
> >>>
> >>> 	The physics team, headed by Dr. Lene Vestergaard Hau, who works
> >>> 	concurrently at the Rowland Institute for Science in Cambridge,
> >>> 	Mass., and at Harvard University, expects soon to slow the pace
> >>> 	of light still further, to a glacial 120 feet an hour -- about
> >>> 	the speed of a tortoise.
> >>>
> >>> 	"We're getting the speed of light so low we can almost send a
> >>> 	beam into the system, go for a cup of coffee and return in time
> >>> 	to see the light come out," 	Dr. Hau said in an interview.
> >>> 	Dr. Hau said in an interview.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/021899sci-slow-light.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Lev Lafayette. lev-AT-ariel.unimelb.edu.au http://ariel.unimelb.edu.au/~lev
* Electorate Officer for Neil Cole, MLA for Melbourne, Parliament of Victoria.
* Thesis in progress: 'A Social Theory of the Internet'. Ashworth Centre
for Social Theory, University of Melbourne.
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