http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/ Engadget Comments for Researchers slow light to a "crawl," photonic computers imminent http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/Dec 23rd 2006 3:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/Dec 23rd 2006 4:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/Dec 23rd 2006 4:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/Dec 23rd 2006 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/
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IF the speed of light is variable, and science and scientists in the past 5 years have shown that to be possible, then their calculations regarding the "age of the earth" are bullshit.
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1. "The Speed of Light" is not variable. "The Speed of Light" is the speed that light travels in a vacuum. Light travels at different speeds through different substances. Ever heard of refraction? How, exactly, would that be possible if light traveled at the same speed through every substance?

2. What does any of that have to do with the age of the Earth?

3. What's it like to be a fundamentalist nutjob?]]>Dec 23rd 2006 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/Dec 23rd 2006 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/
Light moves at the same speed in air as it does in a vacuum(Just under 300'000'000 km/s). However is does slow down in fibre optic cables(just under 200'000'000 km/s)]]>Dec 23rd 2006 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_indices_of_refraction.]]>Dec 23rd 2006 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/Dec 23rd 2006 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/Dec 23rd 2006 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/Dec 23rd 2006 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/Dec 25th 2006 1:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/Dec 23rd 2006 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/Dec 24th 2006 5:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/researchers-slow-light-to-a-crawl-photonic-computers-imminent/The decay of c affects the speed of nucleons and the alpha escape particle frequency.
The "facts" taught in science books are "corrected" every few years. Stay up to date!]]>Apr 4th 2007 1:35AM