MetaFilter posts tagged with speedoflight

Hi-yo, Silver

HuronBob — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:48:26 -0800

the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains.... This will take you back. SLYT And also your introduction to youtube's version of HULU. I'll buy a beer for anyone over the age of 50 who is able to close this page BEFORE the opening theme is done!

'We have broken speed of light'

hermitosis — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:51:39 -0800

"We have broken speed of light." So say Dr. Gunter Nimtz and Dr. Alfons Stahlhofen of the University of Koblenz, in this article from New Scientist. Dr. Nimtz's work has been cited on MeFi before.

Lightspeed Travel Simulation

feathermeat — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:52:34 -0800

What would Tübingen look like if you traveled through it at the speed of light?

Breaking the Speed Limit

awesomebrad — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:29:54 -0800

Scientists speed up light, causing it to travel faster than "c," the long recognized speed of light in a vacuum. This, like the experiments conducted several years ago to briefly stop light, are hard for the average person to comprehend, but have important applications in fiberoptic communications.

Marshmallows-A Take-Home Lab

thatwhichfalls — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 09:02:55 -0800

How to calculate the speed of light with a microwave and some marshmallows
via Making Light

Anyone got the time?

Orange Goblin — Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:09:34 -0800

Just how plausable is time travel? Could you go back in time and kill your own grandfather?. Would you want to? Time travel is a popular subject for films, but do the writers work out exactly what is happening? Current opinion seems to be that time travel is only possible to the future, and is only one way, by travelling at near light speed. However despite this, time machines seem to already be on sale.

GriffX — Tue, 05 Jun 2001 12:33:12 -0800

Speed of light broken ... no biggy.

scottandrew — Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:52:22 -0800

Speed of light broken. But it may be awhile before we can harness it for anything useful. Fascinating, nonetheless.

aurelian — Mon, 05 Jun 2000 12:35:47 -0800

Can the speed of light be broken? It's not 1 April, so this actually might be true. It'll be interesting to see the paper in Nature, if and when.