For only $500 you can join the group of people who have broken the speed of light

[Czar]

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992796

Scientists have sent light signals at faster-than-light speeds over the distances of a few metres for the last two decades - but only with the aid of complicated, expensive equipment. Now physicists at Middle Tennessee State University have broken that speed limit over distances of nearly 120 metres, using off-the-shelf equipment costing just $500.

Jeremy Munday and Bill Robertson made a 120-metre-long cable by alternating six- to eight-metre-long lengths of two different kinds of coaxial cable, each with a different electrical resistance. They hooked this hybrid cable up to two signal generators, one of which broadcast a fast wave, the other a slow one. The waves interfere with each other to produce electric pulses, which can be watched using an oscilloscope.

Seems that they should be able to make twisted pair cables out of that

 

[BennyD]

imagine the broadband possibilities

"can you wait a few minutes, i'm just going to download all of the internet"

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: BennyD
imagine the broadband possibilities

"can you wait a few minutes, i'm just going to download all of the internet"

Think of the price that ISPs are going to charge because the average Joe either 1) doesn't know what the worth is of what he's grossly overpaying for or 2) wants it so bad that he'll pay top dollar for it.

nik

 

[DeadHead]

pretty neat, that would be sweet downloading something at 1 terabyte a sec!

 

[eakers]

Originally posted by: BennyD
imagine the broadband possibilities

"can you wait a few minutes, i'm just going to download all of the internet"

*jizzzzzzzzzz*

 

[Rent]

Originally posted by: eakers

Originally posted by: BennyD
imagine the broadband possibilities

"can you wait a few minutes, i'm just going to download all of the internet"

*jizzzzzzzzzz*

 

[SerraYX]

Originally posted by: BennyD
imagine the broadband possibilities

"can you wait a few minutes, i'm just going to download all of the internet"

That's assuming this actually has useful purposes. Waves interfering with each other isn't exactly useful, thought it's cool to know that it can be done.

Physicist Alain Hache at the University of Moncton in Canada adds that it may be possible to use this reflection technique to boost electrical signal speeds in computers and telecommunications grids by more than 50 per cent.

Translation: GIVE ME MONEY!!!

 

[Cattlegod]

hmm, faster than light = travel into the past.

does this mean i can download porn and have it on my hard drive even before load kazaa?

 

[vetteguy]

New Mac "switch" commercial:

"I tried to download the internet into my PC, and it was like "errrrrrrrrrrrrr""

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: eakers

Originally posted by: BennyD
imagine the broadband possibilities

"can you wait a few minutes, i'm just going to download all of the internet"

*jizzzzzzzzzz*

want a towel?