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But Does it Make that "BEEP BEEP BEEP" Noise?
Slashdot linked up news that scientists have figured out how to make light so fast it travels in reverse. I tried to read the article, but half way through my head asploded. Those with harder noggins (i.e. Ron, Joshua, Pat, Tat, &c.) will have to give it a read and see if it makes more sense to them.
Eh... Just think of their etrium-laced fiber optic cable as a very long, totally frictionless tube completely stuffed with a single-file line of ping-pong balls.
They shove a ping-pong ball in one end, and one pops out the other end instantly. Wow! The ping-pong balls moved faster than light!... not.
Now they've noticed that, when a ping-pong ball pops out the other end, *FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT*, a vibration propogates back through the tube, *STILL FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT*, and makes the ping-pong ball you shoved in there pop partially back out again.
Next, watch us travel to alternate dimensions by putting a GameBoy in a blender!
Oh well, if they didn't fluff their feathers, the government wouldn't give them money. Maybe they'll invent something useful yet.