Wits pioneers world-first light acceleration

[Kevin Lancaster]

Wits pioneers world-first light acceleration

Wits University researchers have developed a way to accelerate light that could eventually lead to much faster internet speeds and benefits for medical technology.

 

[Ockie]

Unless this enables Wits to develop warp drive I am not particularly interested.

 

[NeoAcheron]

Unless this enables Wits to develop warp drive I am not particularly interested.

But if they can "accelerate" light, it would reduce lag... That's good!!!

 

[Myrrdin]

The stock picture used in that article made me rofl.

 

[die_koos]

Poses a bit of a question then..... if nothing goes faster than light (except light?) if you can accelerate light - can you slow it down enough for something to overtake it?

 

[grok]

Light that goes faster than light? What sourcery is this?

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Poses a bit of a question then..... if nothing goes faster than light (except light?) if you can accelerate light - can you slow it down enough for something to overtake it?

Light that goes faster than light? What sourcery is this?

Acceleration, not speed...

 

[Swa]

Leave it to the media to report on complex scientific stuff. This just sounds like gibberish.

 

[CrzWaco]

Okay, at the moment this research is not directly coupled to this. In the present work I have shown how to make light accelerate, which is not something it is meant to do,” Forbes told Fin24.

Is this all wth this article was so dam poor.

 

[furpile]

I assume this is the original article. This article is indeed poorly worded, they are working on angular acceleration, not linear. So basically spinning a light beam.

 

[Nod]

Poses a bit of a question then..... if nothing goes faster than light (except light?) if you can accelerate light - can you slow it down enough for something to overtake it?

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/02.18/light.html
http://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_388852_en.html

 

[Aquila ka Hecate]

The stock picture used in that article made me rofl.

Me, too.

Seriously, MyBB?

 

[Vice]

Internet speeds are associated with all sorts of weird research, especially in SA. Just tell the telscum to open up the "digital pipeline", then we won't hopelessly sound weird by association.:erm: